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New West Indian Carabidae, with a list of the Cuban Species.
Psyche 41(2):66-130, 1934.
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66 Psyche [June
NEW WEST INDIAN CARABID^E, WITH A LIST
OF THE CUBAN SPECIES1
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. The purpose of the present paper is two-fold: first, to describe a number of new Carabidse which have come to hand during several years of sporadic work on the West Indian fauna, and second, to give a complete list of the species now known from Cuba. Eventually I plan to publish a revision of all the Carabidse of the West Indies. How- ever, this will have to await the acquisition of much more material than is now available, and I think in the mean- time a' Cuban list (which adds very little to the length of this paper) will be useful not only to collectors on the island, but to any coleopterists in the United States who feel a responsibility for knowing something about the Cuban fauna.
The order of genera in the list is approximately that of the Junk Catalogue. The Cuban species are numbered con- secutively; species from other islands are interpolated without numbers. Of the 134 species here listed from Cuba (about twice the number previously known) I have seen
Cuban specimens of 128. The 6 which I have not seen are noted in the list, The synonymy which I have cited is practically limited to names used for actual Cuban speci- mens by earlier writers, of whom the chief have been the following :
1.
Jaequelin-Duval, 1857, in Ramon de la Sagra's His- toire physique, politique et naturelle de 1'Ile de Cuba (French Ed.), Animaux Articules [Vol. 71, pp. 6-24 (Carabidse) .
'Publication aided by a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
including as a supplement a new Masoreus (Aephnidius) by A. J. Mutchler.
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2.
Chevrolat, 1863, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (4) 3, pp. 186- 199.
3. Gundlach, 1891, Contribucih ii la Entomologia Cubana, Vol. 3, part 5, pp. 12-33 (sometimes cited as of An. Acad. Cien. Habana).
4. Leng & Mutchler, 1914, Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 33, pp. 393-397.
5. Leng & Mutchler, 1917, Ibid. 37, pp. 194-195. The material I have examined includes the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (containing Cuban specimens collected by me in 1926 and 1929, on trips made possible by grants from the Atkins Foundation of Harvard University), the United States National Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences (Poey material from Cuba) ; collec- tions submitted by Prof. Stuart T. Danforth (Puerto Rico), Mr. S. C. Bruner of the Estacih Experimental Agronomics and Mr. M. L. Jaume (Cuba) ; and smaller lots of specimens from other sources. My thanks are due to all of these per- sons and to the curators of the museums mentioned. I have also to acknowledge assistance given me by Mr. Ren6 Oberthiir, Mr. K. G. Blair, Dr. R. Jeannel, Dr. Joseph Bequsert, Mr. A. d'orchymont, Mr. W. S. Blatchley, Mr. A. J. Mutchler, Mr. M. Banninger, Dr. S. Breuning, and the late Prof. H. F. Wickham, all of whom have either com- pared specimens with types inaccessible to me, or identified material in special genera, or helped me in other ways. 1.
Calosoma (s. s.) splendidurn Dej.
2.
Calosoma ( Callistriga) a. alternans (Fab. ) 3. Pachyteles gyllenhali (Dej.)
pallida (Chev.)
4. Scarites alternans Chd.
5. Scarites subterraneus Fab. (varities) 6. Clivina dentipes De j.
Clivina addita n. sp.
Of average form for Clivina of dentipes group, slightly depressed ; black, appendages piceous. Head with clypeus
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bi-emarginate each side, but less deeply so than in dentipes; front with longitudinal and transverse lines as in dentipes, with small median puncture, otherwise impunctate ; an- tennss not reaching to basal angles of prothorax. Pro- thorax by measurement very slightly wider than long; moderately convex; posterior margin basal; posterior an- gles not conspicuous; disk not punctate, with usual im- pressed lines and also with fine, irregular, well separated transverse lines. Elytra not margined at base, rather deeply striate, striae moderately punctate; eighth stria not continued above humerus ; third stria five-punctate. Front femur with small, rounded-obtuse tooth on lower posterior edge near apex; front tibia tridentate externally above terminal digit, finely bicanaliculate on anterior face near apex, inconspicuously toothed near middle of posterior face ; front trochanters not angulately prominent; middle tibia spurred externally near apex; paronychium short or absent in unique type, but probably long in fresh specimens. Lower surface without unusual punctuation ; last ventral with inner pair of punctures twice as far apart as distance between them and outer punctures. Length 8 mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19489) from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, F. Mara, sent by S. T. Dan- forth ; unique.
In Putzeys' revision of Clivina (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belgique 10, 1866) this species would belong in group 24 (dentipes etc.), but it will not fit in any of the six sections of that group. It is excluded from the first four sections either by absence of a basal elytral margin or by the small obtuse femoral tooth; from the fifth, by the impunctate abdomen and only slightly and broadly emarginate epistoma; and from the sixth, by the short antennae. It is at once separ- able from de-es, which it somewhat resembles, by the reduced femoral tooth.
7. Clivina cub= n. sp.
Slender, parallel, slightly depressed; piceous black, ap- pendages and parts of lower surface rufescent. Head with clypeus deeply bi-emarginate each side ; front shining, al-
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most impunctatle except for a punctiform impression at middle; antennae reaching about to basal angles of pro- thorax. Prothorax depressed, almost square, not narrowed in front; anterior angles minutely prominent, posterior angles finely denticulate ; impressed lines on disk normal for dentipes group; surface of pronotum very finely punctate. Elytra with striae moderately impressed and punctate ; not margined at base between first and sixth intervals; small tubercle at base of first stria; third stria with five setigerous punctures; sixth and seventh intervals finely carinate at base, sixth joining elytral margin in front of humeral angle. Front femur with a short, obtuse tooth (hardly more than a pronounced sinuation) below near apex; front tibia lightly sulcate above, tridentate externally above terminal digit, with only a very minute tooth near middle of posterior face; front trochanters not angulately prominent; middle tibia with spur on outer side near apex; paronychium about as long as claws. Pro,-, meso-, and metathorax punctate at sides below; abdomen finely but distinctly punctate, espec- ially at sides and on apical segment; prosternum about as in dentipes; last ventral with inner pair of setae separated by about one and a half times the distance between them and outer setae. Length 5%-6 mm.; width -+- 134 mm. Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19490) and 10 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June and Oct. 31, washed from gravel banks of the Arimao River; 6 paratypes from Cayamas,l Cuba, May 25-June 8, E. A. Schwarz (United States National Museum) ; 1 para- type from Baragua, Camaguey, Cuba, June 5, L. D. Chris- tenson, at light (U. S. N. M.) .
This species belongs in group 24 (dentipes group) in Put- zeys' revision (I. c.). Within this group it falls in' section 5 or 6, resembling only C. latimana Putz. and C. punctiven- tris Putz., both of South America, in ventral punctua- tion. From latimom, CU~SB differs in having the epistoma 'The Cayamas from which Schwarz's specimens came is in south- western Santa Clara, near Yaguararnas
(Cf. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington 5, 1903, p. 287).
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not more emarginate than usual at middle; from punctiven- tris, in having shorter antennae. A comparison of speci- mens would probably show other differences. From Clivina dentipes and C. addita, the only previously described West Indian species of its group, cubas is distinguished at once by its smaller size and more extensively punctate lower surface. 8. Clivina limbipennis J.-Duval
simplex Chlev.
9. Clivina insularis (J.-Duv.)
10. Clivina bipustulata (Fab.)
bipustulu (Chev.)
11. Clivina biguttata Putz.
bisignatu Chev. etc., not bisignata Putz. 12. Dyschirius subiaevis Putz.
13. Dyschirius erythrocerus Lec.
14. Oxydrepanus rufus (Putz.)
brevicarinutus (Putz. )
15. Ardistomus nitidipennis n. sp.
Of average form for Ardistomus; black, not bronzed, very shining; appendages and a pair of large, rounded, scarcely oblique subapical spots rufous. Head with clypeus almost evenly truncate; vertex not impressed. Prothorax almost orbicular; lateral margins reaching base ; disk with usual impressions. Elytra very shining, not at all aluta- ceous ; striae tnoderately impressed, impunctate, entire, sec- ond reaching nearly to base ; third interval five-punctate on outer edge (constant in all specimens). Last ventral with two punctures each side near apex. Front tibia bidentate externally above apical digit; front tarsi rather widely di- lated. Length 5%-6% mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19491 ) and 12 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, Oct. 21, Nov. 7 & 9; some taken in debris after heavy floods, others secured by treading .down vegetation on the edge of a tiny brook in woods.
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This is the first red spotted Ardistomus known from the West Indies.
It belongs in group 1, section 1 of Putzeys' revision (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belgique 10, 1866, 200-). It is close to A. convexa Putz., of which we have a broken speci- men from Mexico, but differs in being slightly less convex and in having the elytra shining, not alutaceous as in con- vexa. The Cuban species is also brighter, with larger ely- tral spots. From A. obliqwta Putz. of the eastern United States, including Florida, the Cuban species differs in being smaller, with different outline of prothorax, and with fewer setigerous punctures on the third elytral interval. 16. Ardistomus elongatulus Putz.
17. Ardistomus cyaneolimbatus Chev.
gundlachi Putz. MS., Gundlach, etc.
18. Aspidoglossa vulnerata Putz.
comma Putz.
19. Schizogenius arimao n. sp.
Subparallel, slightly depressed ; rufous (immature) or black, appendages and lower surface always more or less rufescent. Head with mentum toothed ; vertex s'even-sul- cate, central carinae nearly parallel, only slightly converging anteriorly. Prothorax by measurement slightly wider than long; disk impunctate, slightly wrinkled transversely, with a single longitudinal sulcus each side of the median sulcus. Elytra rather deeply striate, striae punctate basally, not apically; third and fifth intervals each with about seven, seventh with about four setigerous punctures (exact num- ber slightly variable). Front tibia as usual in genus. Male with three setigerous punctures placed triangularly each side of last ventral; female with two setae each side, near margin. Length 33/^% mm.
Holotype s (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19492) and 24 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, Oct. 19, Dec. 1 & 3; all washed from low gravel banks of the Arimao River. One paratype from Cumanayagua, Santa Clara, Cuba, June 10, I?. de Zayas (in Coll. Estacih E. Agronomica, Cuba).
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This is the first known West Indian Schizogenius. It is close to S. tristriatlis Putz. of Mexico and Central America (several specimens examined) but is smaller and more con- vex than typical tristrwtus (described as 5 mm. long) and much smaller than variety longipennis Putz. (described as larger than tristriatus) . Bates, in "Biologia," gives the size of his specimens of tristriatus as from 1% to 2% lines, which would include specimens as small as the Cuban ones. However, the identity of the various Central American forms referred to tristriatus seems to me very questionable, and since the Cuban form, if it really is tristriatus at all, is fairly constant and smaller than either of the described con- tinental forms, it seems best to treat it as a distinct species at least temporarily. It can hardly prove to be less than a good subspecies. In Leconte's table of North American Schizogenius (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 2, 1879, p. 34) arimao runs to lineolatus or saZZei, but is smaller and more convex than either.
The following key will help to define the numerous new species of Bembidiini which are described in the following pages. It includes all previously known West Indian species except Tachys pictwatus Putz. (possibly a member of the vittiger group) and T. piceolus Laf. (possibly near corrus- cus), which I have not been able to identify in the material I have seen. It also excludes the completely blind Petro- charts eggersi Ehlers of St. Thomas, which I do not know. 1. Outer apical angle of front tibia normal, rounded; size ......
2%-6 mm. .......................................... (Bembidion) .2 Outer apical angle of front tibia obliquely truncate or truncato-emarginate ; size 3 mm. or (usually) less ...... 6 2. Dorsal elytral punctures practically on third stria ; color plain dark rufous ; length 4 mm. ................................ Bembidion jamaicense n. sp.
Dorsal elytral punctures near middle of third interval; elytra more or less variegated .......................................... .3
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3. Front of head not at all alutaceous ; 2%-3y3 mm.. Bembidion darlingtoni Mutchler.
...........................
Front of head alutaceous ; size larger.. .4
4. Elytral striae apically deleted or only lightly impressed. Bembidion viridicolle (Laf.) .
.....
Elytral striae entire, about same depth throughout.. .5
5. Prothorax with sides broadly but slightly sinuate before basal angles ; latter only slightly prominent.. .................... Bembidion fastidiosum (Laf.) .
Prothorax with sides strongly and conspicuously sinuate ...................
before basal angles ; latter rather prominent Bembidion sparsum Bates.
6. Two setae over each eye, but anterior sometimes shorter .................................................................. than posterior.. .7
One seta over each eye; head sunk in thorax nearly to eyes .................................................... (Micratopus) ....... .27 7. Eyes moderate or large; antennae sometimes monili- form, usually not. .............................................................. .8 Eyes much reduced, small or minute; antennae monili- form ...................................................... (Limnastis) ....... .28 8. Antennae moniliform, middle joints as wide as long.. ... 9 Antennae more slender.. ................................................... .I0 9. Side margins of thorax broad, channeled, translucent; color castaneous with base and apex of elytra pale; size .......................................................................... under 2 mm.
Tachys (Tachyta) flavicauda autumnalis Bates. Side margins of prothorax narrower, not translucent; color dark piceous, elytra each with a subapical red spot ; size -+- 2V2 mm.. .................................................................. Tachys (Tachyta) hispaniolae n. sp.
10. Elytra each with six coarsely punctate strise beside the marginal series of punctures; size -+-2-2s mm ............. Pericompsus blomdulus Schaum.
Elytra with not more than five coarsely punctate striae beside marginal series, or striae not coarsely punctate .I1
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11. Posterior dorsal puncture of elytron (on outer edge of third interval, as a rule) much in front of apical re- curved stria ; body very convex .................................... .12 Posterior dorsal puncture of elytron on or within hooked tip of apical recurved stria; body usually more de- pressed ............................................................................... .13 12. Elytra each with five coarsely punctate striae or rows of .......................................
punctures ; mentum bi-perforate,
Tachys (subgenus?) immaculatus (Bates).
Elytra each with only one or two striae, which are im- punctate ; mentum not perforated ..................................... Tachys (Tachyura) xanthopus Dej.
13. Posterior elytral puncture directly upon hooked tip of apical recurved stria ; surface not iridescent.. ............. .14 Posterior elytral puncture within, not on, hooked tip of apical recurved stria; surface usually more or less iri- ............................................................................... descent .15,
14. Basal angles of prothorax obtuse. ....................................... Tachys bradycellinus Hayw.
Basal angles of prothorax right. .Tachys occultator Casley (and) Tachys ensenadae Mutchler.
15. Male with two joints of front tarsus dilated .............. .16 Male with only basal joint of front tarsus dilated ...... .20 16. Antennae very slender (middle joints about three times as long as wide; tip of sixth reaching about to basal an- ...
gle of prothorax) ; eyes moderate; length ~3 mm. Tachys albipes Lee.
Antennae stouter and short~er; other characters vari- able ..................................................................................... .17 17. Eyes abruptly prominent, forming right angles with sides of head behind them; basal angles of prothorax obtuse but distinct; length just over 2% mm. ................... Tachys abruptus n. sp.
Eyes less prominent, forming obtuse angles with sides ...........
of head behind them; other characters variablce 18
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18. Basal angles of prothorax very obtuse, almost rounded except for minute subprominent sinuation of margin; ..................................................................... size &21/^ mm..
Tachys putzeysi F. & S.
Basal angles of prothorax obtuse but rather distinct; .................................................................. size 2-214 mm.. .19
19. Prothorax transverse, head relatively; narrow (PI. 1, fig. 1) ....................................... .Tachys dominicanus n. sp. Prothorax less transverse, head broader. ........................... Tachys sp. (Guadeloupe & Montserrat.)
20. Surface of elytra with very fine, short, sparse pubes- .................................................... cence Tachys striax n. sp.
......................................
Surface of elytra not pubescent
21
21. Posterior angles of prothorax accurately and minutely formed ; color testaceous with head scarcely darker .. .22 Posterior angles of prothorax finely blunted or bluntly subdenticulate; color castaneous, or partly testaceous with head much darker.. ......................... ..'. ..................... .25 22. Form unusually slender, parallel.. ................................. .23 ..................................................................... Form broad. .24
23. Base of prothorax oblique at sides; eyes very prominent. Tachys flax n. sp.
Prothorax squarely truncate at base; eyes Less promi- nent .................................................... Tachys pumzlus Dej. 24. Median line of prothorax continued as a groove behind posterior transverse impression; first joint male front tarsus very wide ; size -+-2% mm.. ....................................... Tachys cubax n. sp.
Median line of prothorax not continued behind posterior transverse impression; first joint male front tarsus rela- tively much narrower; size just under 2 mm. .................... Tachys paulax n. sp.
25. Sides of prothorax sinuate before basal angles, which would be almost right except are slightly blunted; head and prothorax relatively narrow; size *2l,4 mm ........... Tachys scitulus Lee.
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Sides of prothorax scarcely or not sinuate before the basal angles, which are more obtuse; other characters ............................................................................. variable .26
26. Color usually castaneous or darker; head and prothorax relatively narrower ; antennae more slendler (middle joints more than twice as long as wide) ; first joint male front tarsus wider and with outer apical angle more strongly produced ; size -h 2% mm.. ................................... Tachys corruscus Lec.
Color testaceous with head much darker; head and pro- thorax relatively widler ; antennae stouter (middle joints less than twice as long as wide) ; first joint male tarsus smaller; size 2 mm. or slightly less ................................... Tachys vorax Lec.
27. Head moderate ; prothorax not especially large ; size about 1% mm.. ...................... Micratopus insularis n. sp. Head very small; prothorax relatively very large ; size +2 mm. (PI. 5, fig. 3) ......... Micratopus parviceps n. sp. -
28. Form slender; head relatively small; length 1%-1% mm. (PI. 5, fig. 2.) ........................ Limnastis americanus n. sp. Form less slender ; head relatively large ; length barely over 1 mm.. ................................... Limnastis capito Bates. Bembidion (Peryphus) jamaicense n. sp.
Moderately slender, convex, upper surface faintly aluta- ceous but rather shining; dark rufous, appendages testa- ceous. Head rather long ; eyes prominent ; antennae slender ; front with inconspicuous median puncture; frontal sulci moderate, parallel; mentum with rounded-triangular tooth at middle. Prothorax subcordate, about one-third wider than long (by measurement) ; basal angles acute but not much more than right, strongly carinate; disk with trans- verse impressions moderate, longitudinal line strong. Elytra with first and second striae (entire, third nearly entire, fourth to sixth obliterated near apex except fifth apically sulciform, seventh indicated by a few faint punctures in basal half, eighth near margin ; striae moderately punctate basally,
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smooth apically; intervals slightly convex, third with two distinct setigerous punctures practically on third stria. Length just over 4 mm.
Holotype 8 (United States National Museum) and 1 Q paratype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19498) from Jamaica, H. G. Hubbard.
This species is superficially similar to Bembidion suban- gustatum Hayw. (type examined) of New Mexico and Ari- zona, but, in addition to being considerably smaller, has a rather differently shaped prothorax and a larger head with more prominent eyes. Of the known Central American Bembidion it is related only to rogersi Bates, of which we have specimens, identified by description, from Cerro Cen- tral, Costa Rica. The Jamaican species is less convex, much paler, lacks aeneous lustre, has the dorsal punctures of the elytra less impressed and nearer the third stria, has more slender antennae, and differs slightly in other ways. 20. Bembidion (Notaphus) sparsum Bates.
21. Bembidion (Notaphus) viridicolle Laf. chevrolati (G. & H.)
apicale J.-Duv.
22. Bembidion (Notaphus) fastidiosum Laf. I have seen specimens from Haiti and Puerto Rico but none from Cuba, although the species is recorded as Cuban by Leng and Mutchler.
23. Bembidion (Notaphus) darlingtoni Mutchler. affine auct., not Say.
Described in the American Museum (Nlew York) Novi- tates no. 686, 1934, p. 3.
24. Tachys (Tachyta) flavicauda autumnalis Bates. Tachys (Tachyta) hispaniolae n. sp.
Of average form for Tachyta; rufo-piceous to piceous black, rufescent below, appendages and a nearly round red spot at apical third of each elytron near middle of its width testaceous ; upper surface entirely alutaceous.
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Head : front with two slightly impressed, widely separated sulci slightly converging anteriorly ; antennae short, second joint shorter than third, middle joints hardly longer than wide; mentum without foraminiform punctures, with blunt tooth in emargination. Prothorax slightly more than a half wider than long (by measurement) ; sides rounded an- teriorly, slightly and very gradually sinuate posteriorly ; posterior angles acutely but very minutely denticulate, costae within angles short and not conspicuous; lateral mar- gins evenly explanate, wider than in Tachys (Tachyta) inornata (Say), less wide than in T. flavicauda; basal transverse impression deep, anterior faint, median line rather deep. Elytra only slightly depressed ; sutural stria deep and entire, recurved as usual; other striae all more or less abbreviated but all visible basally, either as impressed faintly punctate lines or (externally) as series of small punctures; fourth stria with fixed punctures near base and about apical third. Two basal joints of male front tarsus dilated and with anterior apical angles slightly produced. Length +2Yo mm.
Haiti, W. M. Mann: Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19499) and 3 paratypes from Grande Riviere; 2 paratypes from St. Marc.
This species is apparently not closely related to any of those known from North or Central America; its color pat- tern is unique. It is intermediate between the so-called genera Tachyta and Tachymenis as used by Casey (Me- moirs 8, 1918, p. 3).
25. Tachys (Pericompsus) blandulus Schaurn 26. Tachys (Tachyura) xanthopus (Dej .)
27. Tachys (subgenus?) immaculatus (Bates) 28. Tachys (s. s.) occultator Csy.
29. Tachys (s. s.) bradycellinus Hayw.
30. Tachys (s. s.) cubax n. sp.
Rather broad ; not strongly depressed ; rufo-testaceous with a small, vague, dark blotch common to both elytra
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behind middle; very faintly opalescent.
Head with eyes
only moderately prominent; antennae with middle joints about twice as long as wide; frontal sulci parallel, deep anteriorly, abbreviated and obsolete posteriorly; menturn toothed at middle, conspicuously bi-foraminate posteriorly. Prothorax just over a half wider than long (by measure- ment), squarely truncate at base and apex; disk with usual impressed lines, and with median longitudinal line contin- ued posteriorly as a conspicuous groove behind the basal impression ; base broad, angles obtuse but almost right, very precisely defined, not in the least blunted or rounded. Elytra each with seven striae in addition to the marginal one, but the seventh almost obsolete; two inner strise entire, others abbreviated apically; several inner striae slightly impressed, outer ones very superficial; strise slightly irregular but not distinctly punctate; anterior dorsal puncture close to fourth stria about a third or a fourth from base, posterior punc- ture within tip of recurved stria. Male with only first joint of anterior tarsus dilated, with anterior apical angle much prolonged and acute.
Leng-th -4-21/? mm.
Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19600) and 1 s paratype from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Oct. 28, taken under cover beside a little brook in a sabomco or patch of rough, scrubby woods; 1 s paratype from Sari Carlos Est., Guantanamo, Cuba, Oct. 4-8 (American Museum) ; 1 8 specimen, not a type, from Bath, Jamaica, Apr. 3-6 (American Museum) ; 1 s paratype from Cay- amas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Feb. 15, E. A. Schwartz (United States National Museum) ; 1 8 paratype from Jatibonico, Cuba, Oct. 30, in soil of sugar cane field, L. D. Christenson (U. S. N. M.).
The form of the first tarsal joint of the male distinguishes this species from all our North American Tachys s. s. ex- cept comcus Lee.
As compared with the latter cubax
is differently colored, broader, less depressed, the frontal sulci are conspicuously shorter, the antennae stouter, the prothorax broader at base with more precisely formed basal angles and with an extreme basal median channel. The two species are not really very closely related. Cubax is
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probably closer to Tachys platyderus Bates, and its allies, of the Amazonian region, but the type of elytral striation combined with the barely sinuate sides of the prothorax apparently distinguish it from all of them. In coining the name cubax I am following the example of Leconte, who made a habit of using two-syllable names ending in ax for species of this genus.
31. Tachys (s,. s.) paulax n. sp.
Rather broad, not strongly depressed ; rufo-testaceous with slight opalescent lustre.
Characters in general the
same as in the preceding species except that the sides of the prothorax are slightly more sinuate before the base, the median line of the prothorax is not continued behind the posterior transverse impression, the first joint of the male front tarsus is much less dilated, and the size is smaller. Length just under 2 mm.
Holotype 8 (United States National Museum) and 1 9 paratype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19501) from Cayamas, Sta-Clara, Cuba, March 2, E. A. Schwarz. 32. Tachys (s. s.) albipes Lee.
Tachys (s. s.) abruptus n. sp.
Broad, somewhat depressed ; rather shining rufo-castane- ous with slight irid~escence, appendages paler. Head with abruptly prominent eyes which form right angles with the sides of the head behind them (when seen from a line per- pendicular to the front) ; antennae with middle joints less than twice as long as wide. Prothorax by measurement just over one and a half times as wide as long; sides barely sinuate before basal angles, which are obtuse but distinct; disk with usual impressed lines. Elytra broadly oval, each with about three inner striae more or less distinct and one or two outer ones faintly indicated; striae not distinctly punctulate; anterior dorsal puncture about on fourth stria a third from base, posterior puncture within recurved tip of apical striole. Male with two basal joints of each front tarsus rather widely dilated. Length just over 2% mm.
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Holotype 8 (American Museum) and 4 paratypes ( 8 $ Q Q ) from Gourbeyre, Guadeloupe ; 3 paratypes ( $ Q Q ) from Long Ditton, Dominica, July 21, 1911. Para- types in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (no. 19496) and the American Museum.
This species is distinguishable from its relatives (the
preceding and the three following species)' by its more abruptly prominent eyes, as well as by other characters given in the key.
Tachys (s. s.) putzeysi F. & S.
Gourbeyre, Guadeloupe, 7 specimens (American Museum). One specimen has been compared with the type in the Paris Museum by Dr. Jeannel, to whom I sent for comparison specimens of all five Lesser Antillean Tachys known to me.
Tachys (s. s.) dominicanus n. sp. (PI. 5, fig. 1) Rather broad and depressed ; shining rufo-testaceous, iridescence very faint, appendages paler. Head relatively
small, with poorly developed eyes; antennae with middle joints rather less than twice as long as wide. Prothorax by measurement just over one and a half times as wide as long, sides oblique or just sinuate before the obtuse but distinct basal angles; disk with usual impressed lines. Elytra each with about two inner striae distinct and several outer ones indicated ; striae irregular, almost punctulatle ; anterior dorsal puncture about on fourth stria a third from base, posterior puncture within recurved tip of apical stride. Male with two basal joints of each front tarsus moderately dilated. Length 2-2% mm.
Holotype $ (American Museum) and 16 paratypes from Long Ditton, Dominica, June 21, 1911.
Paratypes in the
Mus~eum of Comparative Zoology (no. 19497) and American Museum.
The distinguishing characters of this species are suffi- .
ciently given in the key.
33. Tachys (s,. s.) scitulus Lee.
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34. Tachys (s. s,.) corruscus Lee. (not typical) 35. Tachys (s. s.) vorax Lee.
36. Tachys (s. s.) striax n. sp.
Moderately stout, depressed ; ruf o-testaceous (elytra rarely piceous with base paler), iridescent lustre faint or absent; head only slightly darker. Head with eyes only slightly prominent; antennae with middle joints about twice as long as wide; frontal grooves moderate, slightly converging anteriorly ; front faintly micro-reticulate, with distinct small puncture at middle; mentum toothed at mid- dle, with two large foraminiform perforations. Prothorax cordate, about a half wider than long (by measurement), sides strongly sinuate before the prominent and acute (but not much more than right) basal angles; usual discal im- pressions well marked. Elytra finely, sparsely, inconspic- uously pubescent, (pubescence visible only under high mag- nification) ; with about five striae including the sutural vis- ible on each, the inner two or three somewhat impressed, irregularly and inconspicuously punctulate, or at least with sides of intervals irregular; sutural stria reaching base of elytron, it and second stria reaching apex (second sulciform apically), others abbreviated ; anterior setigerous puncture almost on fourth stria about a third from base, posterior puncture within tip of hooked apical stride. Male with first joint of front tarsus moderately dilated, with anterior apical angle acutely but not strongly produced. Length 2 mm. or slightly less.
Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19502) and 19 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, Oct. 17 & 20, Nov. 7. One specimen was taken under a stone in a dry field; practically all the others, in a plowed field during a heavy flood. 1 paratype from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, June 6, E. A. Schwarz (United States National Museum) ; 1 paratype from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 27 (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences).
This species is strongly characterized by the pubescent and striate elytra with the second stria sulciform apically. So far as I know, it has no close relatives.
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37. Tachys (s. s.) pumilus (Dej.)
38. Tachys (s. s.) filax n. sp.
Slender, subdepressed ; testaceous, rather shining. Head nearly as wide as prothorax ; eyes very prominent ; antennae rather stout, middle joints about a half longer than wide, apex of eighth joint reaching about to base of prothorax; mentum with two foraminiform punctures. Prothorax cordate, slightly less than a half wider than long (by mea- surement) ; base oblique at sides; sides sinuate before the obtuse (but nearly right) posterior angles, which are ac- curately defined. Elytra each with two inner striae slightly impressed and one or two others more or less indi- cated ; striae slightly irregular but not distinctly punctate ; apical recurved stria well marked and long; but second stria scarcely visible at apex; anterior dorsal puncture on third interval near basal third, posterior puncture within tip of recurved stria. Length mm.
Holotype $ (United States National Museum) and 1 $ paratype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19503) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, E. A. Schwarz, Jan. 30 and Feb. 13. Also 1 ( 8 ?) paratype from Cuba, Poey Col- lection no. 27 (associated with Poey specimen of preceding species) (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences) . This is a very graceful species which approaches the form of the vittiger group of Tachys, but has the characters of Hayward's proximus group. It is distinguished from Tachys pumilus (Dej.), apparently its nearest ally, by much more prominent eyes, base of prothorax oblique at sidles, and more slender form.
39. Limnastis americanus n. sp. (PI. 5, fig. 2.) Small, slender, subdepressed ; rufo-testaceous, head not darker. Head with front micro-reticulate; 'eyes small to very small (see below), flattened, sometimes slightly convlex, sometimes actually concave ; two supraorbital setae each side, anterior one shorter; antennae short, stout, outer joints moniliform; mentum without tooth in emargination. Prothorax by measurement about a third wider than long,
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somewhat narrowed behind, sides broadly, not strongly sinuate before base; posterior angles obtuse or finely right; anterior angles without very conspicuous aeh; dish micro- reticulate, not obviously punctate, with fine, short sparse pubescence. Elytra reaching tip of abdomen, subtruncate, aligMly dehiscent near apex; about three inner strise faintly impressed on each elytron ; intervals each with a single row of fine, short pubescence; one inconspicuous discal puncture on the outer edge of the third interval, almost on the third stria, a little behind the middle. Inner wings dimorphic, welli developed or reduced to about a third elytral length. Male front tarsi each with two basal joints dilated. Length 1%-1% mm.
Holotype macropterous s (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19504) and 16 paratypea (3 macropterous 8 8, 7 macropterous s s , 3 micropterous 8 3, and 3 specimens with wings not examined) all from Soledad (near Cienfue- gos) Cuba, June, Oct. 27, Dec. I; most of them taken by treading down dense vegetation floating' in deep water. They may possibly have been carried there by floods, but were not in real flood debris. Also 4 paratypes (all macropterous Q Q ) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Jan. 2 & 29, Feb. 7 & 13, E. A. Schwarz (United States National Museum). The dimorphism of the inner wings is correlated with the size of the eyes. The macropterous specimens have the eyes larger, usually slightly transverse, separated below from the margin of the mouth by about half or less the diameter of the eye itself. The three micropterous males have the eyes smaller, almost evenly rounded, and separated from the mouth by about their own diameter.
This species is emphatically a Limnastis, not a Micra- topus, as shown by comparison with several American species of the latter genus and with a specimen of Limnast'is maerops Jeanne! kindly sent me by Dr. Jeannel himself. In the latter's table of the genus (Livre Cent., Soc. Ent. France, 1932, pp. 174 -) the macropterous form of the Cuban spe- cies runs to near L. co& Jeanne1 of Tonkin, but has smaller eyes and differs in other ways. This does not, of course, indicate an actual affinity between the Chinese and
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Cuban species, for somewhat similar species of Limnastis occur over a large part of the Old World, including the Med- iterranean region. There is even one, L. gaudini Jeannel, in the Canary Islands, but it is completely blind. Only one true Limnastis has been known before from the New World, L. capito Bates. This was described from Guatemala but occurs also in Cuba. Mr. K. G. Blair has very kindly com- pared a Cuban specimen for me with the type in the British Museum. The distinguishing characters of the two Amer- ican species are given in the key, in the preceding pages. 40. Limnastis capito Bates.
41. Micratopus parviceps n. sp.
(PI. 5, fig. 3.)
Form and proportions as figured; body depressed; sur- face microreticulate but moderately shining; testaceous, head only faintly darker. Head very small, with small, flat eyes which scarcely break the outline of the sides of the head; middle joints of antennae about twice as long as wide. Prothorax very large, broadly emarginate in front, sides of base oblique ; basal angles very obtuse ; disk depressed, median line distinct, basal transverse impression faint, an- terior impression absent. Elytra depressed, independently rounded-subtruncate at apex ; striation nearly complete, but striae very fine, shallow, and inconspicuous ; one dorsal punc- ture near apex of third stria. Length k2 mm. Holotype (United States National Museum) and 5 para- types from Jatibonico, Cuba, Apr. 9, Apr. 20, and July 8, L. D. Christenson, in soil of sugar cane fields. Paratyples in Museum of Comparative Zoology (no. 19505) and United States National Museum.
This species differs from Micmtopus asnescens (Lee.) and fusciceps Csy. of the United States in having the lelytral striae very fine and inconspicuous; from withycombei Jean- nel of Trinidad (Livre du Cent., Soc. Ent. France, 1932, 168) in having the basal angles of the prothorax much more obtuse. The new species is apparently unique in the small size of the head.
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Micratopus insularis n. sp.
So similar to the preceding as not to require a full de- scription. Differs (from parviceps) in being smalller, slightly more convex, with relatively smaller prothorax and larger head with larger, morle prominent eyes. Length +I% mm.
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Holotype (United States National Museum) and 1 para- type (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19506) from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. 11, 1933, A. S. Mills, at light. 42. Diplochaetus rutilus (Chev.) .
43. Perileptus (s. s.) columbus n. sp.
(PI. 5, fig. 4.)
Form and proportions as figured ; depressed ; entirely ruf o-testaceous ; upper surf ace with fine, short pubescence which does not conceal the underlying surface. Head across eyes by measurement barely narrower than pro- thorax, but appearing slightly wider; temples parallel for a short distance behind eyes before being constricted; front shining, obsoletely punctate ; antennae slender, median joints about three times as long as wide; mentum toothed, tooth subtruncate apically. Prothorax cordate ; base more than two-thirds (by measurement) as wide as widest part; sides sinuate about one-sixth from base, thence nearly straight to the regular, right or slightly obtuse basal angles; lateral margin moderate, entire, crenate near base; disk rather finely and closely punctate, basal transverse line very deep, anterior line less deep, median longitudinal line well impressed. Elytra also rather closely and finely punctate ; sutural stria distinct except at base, one or two next striae vaguely indicated ; threle discal punctures on position of third stria on each elytron, about a fifth from base, just be- hind middle, and about a tenth from apex respectively. Male with first two joints of front tarsus somewhat dilated. Length 2%-2% mm.
Holotype 8
(Museum of Comparative Zoology no,. 19507) and 9 paratypes (2 in coll~ection Jeannel), including both sexes, from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Oct. 27 & 28,
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Nov. 24, Dec. 1, taken in gravel bars besidle woodland brooks.
Fo,r comparative remarks see under the following species. Perileptus (s. s.) jeanneli n. sp.
Form closely similar to that of th~e preceding species; depressed; piceous; mouth, bases of antennae, palpi, legs, and feet rufescent to testaceous. Head: antennae very slender, median joints about four times as long as wide; head otherwise about as, in columbus. Prothorax cordate, strongly constricted at base, which is very slightly less than two thirds as wide as widest part; basal angles right. Elytra with sutural stria very lightly impressed, obsolete at base; other striae barely or not at all suggested by irregularities of the elytral surface; three dorsal punctures on position of (obsolete) third stria. Length 3 mm. or slightly less. Male not known.
Holotype s (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19508) and 6 paratypes (2 in collection Jeannel) from Kingston, Jamaica, Feb.
14, 1928; taken in gravel bars of a large stream in the outskirts of the city during half a day of col- lecting, all that I have ever done on the island. This species is close to the preceding, but is perfectly distinct by the much darker color, more slender antennse, relatively narrower prothoracic base, and slightly larger size. Both species belong to the areolatus group of Perilep- tus. Dr. Jeannel, who has very kindly examined specimens sent to him and confirmed my idientification of them as Peri- leptus, writes that the two West Indian species differ from previously known species of the areolatus group only in being more depressed, more closely punctate, and with the elytral striae more effaced. They are especially closely related to P. mqritulus Woll. of Madeira. No species of Perileptus, and indeed none of the Perilep- tini, has been known before from the New World. The West Indian species are especially interesting in that the well characterized areolatus group to which they belong is known otherwise (according to Dr. Jeannel's fine mono-
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graph in l'Abeille, Vol. 32, 1926, pp. 402 -) only in Europe, North Africa, and the Atlantic Islands.
44. Panagaeus quadrisignatus Chev.
thomae Schaum.
45. Coptia sauricollis n. sp.
(PI. 5, fig. 5.)
Piceous black, shining, with rather inconspicuous pale pubescence ; antennae (except the three basal joints, which are dark), palpi, and tarsi testaceous; tibiae and parts of femora more or less reddish. Head nearly smooth except irregularly bi-impressed between eyes ; clypeus impressed each side, impressions joined by a fine, arcuate line ; mentum shallowly emarginate, with a pronounced rounded tooth in emargination; antennae slender, apex of eighth joint reach- ing about to base of pronotum, third joint slightly longer than following ones. Prothorax very broad, much narrowed anteriorly, emarginate in front, bi-spinose each side at base ; +
lateral margins very deeply channeled anteriorly, gradually obliterated posteriorly near first spine ; disk coarsely punc- tate, finely pubescent, surface between punctures shining. Elytra deeply crenato-striate ; intervals convex, shining, but with minute punctures bearing fine pubescence. Lower sur- face shining, only partly pubescent; epipleurae below humeri impunctate and almost without pubescence; sides of pro-, meso-, and metathorax almost without pubescence, coarsely punctate ; ventral segments' with only comparatively fine punctuation except sides of basal segments with a few coarse punctures. Male tarsi not dilated. Length 534-7 ; width 3-3% mm.
Holotype
(Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19509) and 6 paratypes, including both sexes determined by dis- section, from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, Nov. 7 & 21; all collected by myself in flood debris. Coptia, previously known only from two species occurring in Cayenne, Venezuela, and Brazil, differs from Panagseus essentially only in having the front tarsi similar in the two sexes; secondary differences are that the antennae are more slender in Coptia, with proportionately shorter third joint,
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and that the body is less obviously pubescent, more shining, and not spotted. We possess a single specimen of C. armata (Cast.) from St. Augustine, Trinidad. This species is fig- ured by Kollar (Ann. Wiener Mus. 1, 1836, t. 31, figs 3a, b) and both previously known species have been accurately described and compared by Chaudoir (Ann. Soc. Ent. Bel- gique 21, 1878, 167-9).
The present species differs from
them, i. e. from Coptia, armata (Cast.) and C. margimcoZZis Chd., in having a differently shaped prothorax, less nar- rowed anteriorly, with the basal spines better developed. 46. Coptia effeminata n. sp.
(PI. 5, fig. 6.)
Black, rather shining, with inconspicuous pale pubes- cenoe ; antennae (except three darker basal joints), palpi, and tarsi brownish. Head nearly smooth except bi-im- pressed between eyes ; clypeus impressed each side, trans- verse arcuate line faint; mentum shallowly emarginate, with a broad short tooth in emargination; tooth truncate, even slightly emarginate apically; antennae with apex of eighth joint reaching about to base of prothorax, third joint slightly longer than following one. Prothorax broad, nar- rowed anteriorly, emarginate in front, unidentate (not bi- spinose) each side of base ; lateral margin gradually obliter- ated anteriorly, not deeply channeled; disk somewhat de- pressed near posterior angles, coarsely punctate, moderately pubescent. Elytra above about as in preceding species. Lower surface shining, mostly inconspicuously pubescent; epipleurae below humeri with two widely separated rows of coarse punctures ; all ventral segments with very coarse punctuation across their entire width. Length ; width -p4 mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19510) from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Nov. 9, taken at light at "Harvard House." Paratypes: 1 8 (sex deter- mined by dissection) from Central Jaronu, Cuba, July 10, at light, L. C. Scaramuzza (United States National Museum) ; 1 (sex not determined) from Baraguii, Cuba, Nov. 12, at light, C. F. Stahl (U. S. N. M.) ; 1 (sex not de-
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termined) from Camagiiey, Cuba, Aug.-Slept., J. M. Osorio (Collection Estaci6n E. Agronomica, Cuba). This species differs radically from Coptia sauricollis in the much reduced armature of prothorax, absence of deep channeling in prothoracic margin anteriorly, and punctua- tion of epipleurse and abdomen. The species represents in these ways an approach to Panagseus, but is nevertheless referable to Coptia, as shown by the narrow male tarsi, sparse pubescence, etc.
47. Morion georgiae (Beauv.) .
monilicornis (Latr. ) .
Morion costigerus n. sp.
Parallel, subdepressed, entirely black, somewhat shining. Head : clypeus obtusely quadridentate; front with two lon- gitudinal, somewhat sinuous sulci anteriorly ; eyes less abruptly prominent than in georgise. Prothorax formed nearly as in georgise but more elongate, only about a tenth (by measurement) wider than long. Elytra with moder- ately impressed striae, latter impunctate;; intervals only slightly convex except that seventh is strikingly costiform in about basal third; sixth interval sloping inward basally so that fifth stria is at bottom of an obtuse V-shaped de- pression ; third interval with single puncture near second stria just before apical third.
Last ventral with one seti-
gerous puncture about a third from apex on each side. Hind trochanters practically half as long as femora, rounded apically. Length 17-20 mm.
Jamaica : holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19511) from Newton, 3,000 ft., Jan., C. T. Brues; 1 para- type (M. C. Z.) from Cinchona, 5,000 ft., Jan., Brues; 2 paratypes (American Museum) from Cumberland District, Clarendon, Dec. 15-18, about 3,000 ft.
This species~ may be known at once from all previously described American Morion by the very conspicuously costate seventh elytral intervals, which are much more ele- vated than in M. simplex Dej. Otherwise it somewhat re- sembles a very large, slender M. georgias, with which it agrees absolutely in all characters of generic value.
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48. Pterostichus (Poecilus) chalcites (Say). 49. Loxandrus nocticolor n. sp.
Of average form for Loxandrus; shining black, without evident iridescence; tarsi, palpi, and basal joints of anten- nse partly or irregularly rufous. Head normal for genus; clypeus and front anteriorly longitudinally impressed each side; mentum tooth moderate, rounded truncate apically as usual. Prothorax a fourth or a third wider than long (by measurement) ; margin moderate, not wider or more ex- planate basally; sides almost evenly rounded from apex to base; base obliquely rounded each side to the very obtuse basal angles ; disk rather flat ; median line fine, abbreviated at both ends; basal fovese deep, linear, about a third length oi? prothorax; base near fovese finely, sparsely punctate. Elytra rather convex, deeply striate ; striae impunctate ; in- tervals convex, third with puncture on inner edge before middle. Front tarsi of male with joints obliquely dilated. Length 10% mm.
Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19512) and 1 paratype from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Oct. 21, taken in flood debris.
Absence of iridescent lustre combined with unusual depth and perfect smoothness of the elytral strias make this an unusually well characterized species.
50. Loxandrus celeris (Dej .) .
cubanus Tsch.
cruentatus (Chev.) (Stenolophzis) .
For some time I have suspected the identity of Stenolo- phus cruentatus Chev. with this species, and recently Mr. K. G. Blair has compared a specimen sent to him with Chevrolat's type (at Oxford) and confirmed my suspicions. 51. Loxandrus crenatus Lee.
COLPODES M'LEAY AND GLYPTOLENUS BATES
The following table of the known West Indian species of these genera will show the systematic position of the several
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new species described below, and at the same time will sum- marize the West Indian fauna. I have placed asterisks be- fore the species I have not seen. The table is based on Chaudoir's monograph (Ann. Soc. Ent. France (5) 8, 1878, pp. 279 -). The only species I have not been able to place in the table is Metdosomus cuprascens Mots., which is omitted in Chaudoir's monograph. The species may be near mannerheimi. It was described from Santo Domingo. 1. Metepisterna only a little longer than wide; color dark .................................................................. brown or black .2
..................
Metepisterna very elongate ; color variable.. 4
2. Elytra narrowly and regularly ovate ; humeri obliter- ated ; Length 9% mm. ; Martinique and Dominica. :... ....... C. ellipticus Chd.
.......................
Elytra not evenly ovate ; humeri distinct ..............
3. Length -+-8-9 mm. ; Jamaica
C. cinchona? n. sp.
Length
11 mm. ; Santo Domingo.. .................................. *C. jzgeri Dej.
Length 13-15 mm. ; Jamaica.. ................... .C. macer n. sp. .......
4. Tibiae canaliculate above ; prothorax subquadrate.. .5
.......
Tibiae not canaliculate above ; prothorax variable.. .6
5. Color nearly uniform piceous brown ; elytra strikingly short, broad, and convex; side margins of prothorax very narrow anteriorly ; 7% mm. ; Dominica.. .................. Glyptolenus simplicicollis n. sp.
Black, elytra bluish, relatively narrow; side margins of prothorax normal ; 7 mm. ; Guadeloupe (and Brazil) ........ C. chalyheus Dej.
6. Fourth joint of posterior tarsus strongly lobed exter- nally ..................................................................................... .7 Fourth joint of posterior tarsus not or scarcely more strongly lobed externally than internally ; color never metallic ............................................................................... .8 7. Dark piceous, elytra cceruleo-viridescent ; 11 1/'} mm. ; Santo Domingo.. *C. mannerheimi Chd. (jdgeri Mann.) Without metallic lustre ; 12 mm. ; Jamaica ....................... C. vagepunctatus n. sp.
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8. Odd intervals (except first) of elytra foveolate ; 10 mm. ; Guadeloupe ........................... *C. alternans Chd. Odd intervals of elytra not foveolate ............................... 9 9. Striae of elytra intlerrupted ; 9 mm. ; Haiti .......................... C. fractilinea n. sp.
Striae of elytra not interrupted ..................................... 10 10. Head relatively narrow, less than half width of lelytra at widest point.. ..................................................................... .ll Head more than half as wide as elytra at widest point 12 11. Brown, dull ; striae of elytra lightly impressed ; sides of prothorax broadly, not strongly rounded; 8-11 mm.; Guadeloupe.. ................. C. de jeani Chd. (brunneus Dej .) Black, shining; elytral striae more impressed; sides of prothorax more strongly rounded ; 10.5 mm. ; Cuba.. ........ Colpodes sp.
12. Length 8-10 mm. ; Guadeloupe.. ......... .C. lherminieri Chd. Length 10-13 mm.; Guadeloupe .......... *C. elongatus Chd. Length 13-17 mm.; Guadeloupe ........ *C. memnonius Dej. Colpodes cinchonae n. sp.
Slender, elongate, rather depressed ; piceous, appendages rufo-testaceous. Head relatively broad, with usual im- pressions anteriorly ; front smooth ; antennae rather slender. Prothorax only about a fifth or less wider than head across eyes, about as long as wide (by measurement) ; lateral mar- gin rather narrow for genus; posterior angles right but finely blunted ; disk somewhat shining, with usual impres- sions. Elytra broadly sinuate near apex ; apices slightly prolonged, each subangulate ; striae rather fine, impunctate ; intervals nearly flat, dull and alutaeeous, third tripunctate, the first puncture near the third stria about basal fifth, others near second stria about middle and apical third. In- ner wings vestigial.
Metepisterna short; tibiae not canali-
eulate externally; tarsi lightly suleate at sides above, the sulci widely separated, fourth joint bilobed but scarcely produced externally, fifth joint not ciliate; male tarsi slightly dilated. Length +8-9 mm.
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Holotype 9 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19513) from Cinchona Jamaica, 5,000 ft., Jan., C. T. Brues; 11 paratypes (American Museum and M. C. 2.) from the same locality, Feb. 26.
In Chaudoir's tabulation of Colpodes (1. c.) this species would fall nearest to C. sphodroides Chd. and C. pristony- choides Chd. of Mexico, but it is much more slender than either, with a relatively larger head, as shown by compari- son with our small series of sphodroides from "Biologia" material. It is very similar indeed to Colpodes lherrninieri Chd., but the metepisterna are much shorter, the head re- latively larger, and the elytra more opaque than in that species.
Colpodes macer n. sp.
(PI. 5, fig. 7.)
Elongate ; rather depressed ; rufo-testaceous (immature) to piceous, appendages scarcely paler ; upper surface finely alutaceous. Head very elongate; eyes rather large but less prominent than usual in genus; antennae slender, middle joints about three times as long as wide; mentum at mid- dle of emargination with a long slender tooth, pointed or very narrowly truncate at apex. Prothorax (by measure- ment) as long as wide, but appearing longer; sides rather widely reflexed ; basal angles obtuse, narrowly rounded ; disk with fine median longitudinal line and broad vague basal and apical transverse impressions, also with lateral impression on each side 'from near basal angles for- ward and outward to in front of middle. Elytra elongate, prolonged and independently subangulate apically ; margin broadly, slightly sinuate near apex; striae entire, rather delep, impunctate ; intervals slightly convex, third with three inconspicuous punctures. Inner wings vestigial ; metepis- tjerna short. Tibiae not canaliculate externally; tarsi sul- cate, sulci widely separated, fifth joint not ciliate, fourth not lobed externally on middle and hind feet; male anterior tarsi slightly dilated. Length 13-15 mm. Holotype s (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19515) from Cinchona, Jamaica, 5,000 ft., Jan. 1912, C. T. Brues;.
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2 ( 8
) paratypes from the same locality, Feb. 27, 1911 (American Museum).
This species is allied to the Central American Colpodes championi Bates, eueides Bates, and especially severus Chd., of which last there is single specimen from Guatemala in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. C. macer differs from all of them in its more slender form, more prolonged elytral apices, more elongate head, and more widely re- flexed prothoracic margins.
Colpodes vagepunctatus n. sp.
Moderately broad, rather depressed; surface not strongly shining, with inconspicuous silky texture ; rufo-piceous, without metallic lustre, legs not paler, antennae dark rufous at base, testaceous with darker stripes from apex of fourth joint. Head longitudinally bi-impressed in front of eyes; mentum tooth triangular, pointed. Prothorax large, about a third wider than long (by measurement), slightly convex, slightly more narrowed in front than behind ; sides more or less evenly rounded from base to apex; lateral margins mo- derately widely reflexed ; basal angles indistinct, rounded- obtuse; disk with median line fine, transverse impressions poorly defined, basal foveae rather broad and deep, vaguely rugose, surface of disk otherwise smooth except vaguely transversely wrinkled near median line. Elytra with humeri distinct, apices sinuate and slightly produced, sutural angle right; striae rather deep, slightly irregular but not dis- tinctly punctate ; intervals slightly convex ; anterior dorsal puncture on third stria about basal fifth, second and third punctures on third interval near middle and apical fourth, slightly variable, second tending to be nearer second stria, third nearer third. Tibiae not sulcate externally; front tarsi with indistinct sulci each side above, hind tarsi sulcate each side; fourth joint hind tarsus strongly lobed externally, fifth joint not ciliate. Metepisterna long; inner wings re- duced, about half elytral length (possibly variable). Length el2 mm.
Holotype ? (United States National Museum) and 1
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damaged
paratype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19516) from Jamaica, H. G. Hubbard.
In Chaudoir's key (1. c.) this species runs to page 284, the first 2, and falls between o and 00, fitting neither. It differs from all structurally comparable species under both parts of the couplet in the entire absence of metallic lustre. It is not like any of the species described in "Biologia." Colpodes' fractilinea n. sp.
Moderately broad; very shining; rufo-piceous, without metallic lustre, femora scarcely paler, tibize rufo-testaceous, antenn~ and tarsi testaceous. Head longitudinally bi-im- pressed in front of eyes ; mentum tooth rounded-triangular. Prothorax large? nearly a half wider than long (by measure- ment), slightly convex, somewhat narrower in front than behind ; sides nearly evenly rounded ; lateral margins mo- derate, reflexed; basal angles obtuse but distinct; disk with median line fine, transverse impressions poorly marked, basal fovez rather broad, moderately deep ; surface smooth. Elytra with humeri distinct; apices slightly produced, in- dependently irregularly rounded ; strize fine, especially ex- ternally, and interrupted to form series of more or less elongate impressed lines ; scutellar stria long? better im- pressed; intervals flat; anterior dorsal puncture on third stria near basal fifth, second and third punctures on second stria near middle and apical fourth. Tibiz not sulcate ex- ternally; front tarsi not sulcate above; hind tarsi sulcate on outer side, not distinctly so on inner; fourth joint hind tarsus bilobed but only slightly more produced externally than internally ; fifth joint not ciliate. Metepisterna long ; inner wings not reduced. Length just over 9 mm. Holotype 8 (United States National Museum) from Diquini, Haiti, J. B. Ferris ; unique.
In Chaudoir's table (1. c.) this species runs to page 282, "111, 2, b" (C. aphlz,drus etc.) . The lack of metallic lustre alone is enough to distinguish it from most of the species of this group, and the interrupted elytral strie are different from those of any species of the aphWrus group listed by Chaudoir.
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52. Colpodes sp.
The only Colpodes I have seen from Cuba is a single specimen of an undetermined species (briefly characterized in my key ) from Somorrostro, (Havana), coll. Barro. Glyptolenus simplicicollis n. sp
Piceous brown, abdomen, epipleurae? and appendages rufescent.
Head bi-impressed between front margins of eyes; eyes large but not very prominent; front smooth. Prothorax subquadrate? only slightly wider than long (by measurement), slightly narrower in front than at base; posterior angles obtuse? preceded by a minute sinuation of the sides? which are otherwise nearly evenly,, very broadly rounded throughout; lateral margins very narrow anteri- orly? gradually broader and reflexed in posterior half; base truncate at middle? somewhat rounded-oblique at sides ; disk with usual impressions9 but without extra transverse rugae. Elytra relatively very broad, convex? rather deeply striate, strize slightly uneven but not distinctly punctate ; intervals somewhat convex, third very inconspicuously bipunctate, the punctures before basal fourth and behind middle. Met- episterna slender. Tibi~ canaliculate externally ; tarsi strongly sulcate above ; male tarsi slightly dilated. Length 7v2 mm.
Holotype 8 (American Museum) from Laudet? Domin- ica, June 9,1911; unique.
This species is a Glyptolenus as the genus was used by Bates in "Bio10gia7' (CoIeop. I, part I? p. 98). The genus is hardly distincb from Colpodes. G. sirnplicicolZis differs from a11 previously described species in the combination of non-rugulose pronotum and impunctate elytral strize. The genera1 appearance of the insect is much like that of a stout Anchonoderus.
53. Agonum (Anchomenus) extensicolle cubanurn n. subsp. ext ensicoZlis Chev.
extensicolle Gundlach (not Fe-
ronia extensicolle Say).
Head and prothorax rather bright green? but very aluta- ceous and not strongly shining; elytra dull brown-bronzed,
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outer edges green; base of antennz, palpi, legs dull brown* Length 7%-9 mm.
Cuba : holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19517) and 8 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos), "Jan.-Feb." (C. T. Brues), July 1 (B. B. Leavitt), Oct. 31, NOV~ 'I1 ; I paratype from Marcata, Rio Bayamo (M. C. Z.) ; 2 paratypes from Baraguii, Camaguey? at light, May 3 & 5 (L. C. Scaramuzza) and May 29 (L. D. Christenson) (United States National Museum) ; two discolored speci- mens, not types, from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, May 26 and June I, E. A. Schwarz (U. S. N. M.) ; 1 paratype from Camaguey, "Aug.- Sept.," J. M. Osorio (Collection of Esta- cih E. Agronbmica) ; 2 discolored specimens from Ba- ragu6, at light, Nov. 2, L. C. Scaramuzza, and Cumana- yagua, Sta. Clara, June, F. de Zayas (both in Est. E. Agro- n6mica). My specimens were taken in very coarse gravel beside the Arimao River.
The Cuban subspecies differs from true Agonum extensi- colle (Say) of the eastern Unibed States, and from practi- cally a11 other forms of the species occurring on the conti- nent north of Mexico, in having the legs infuscate, not tes- taceous. From Mexican specimens and others with brown legs the Cuban ones differ in the much brighter green head and prothorax,
54. Anchonoderus subtilis Bates.
r 55. Lachnophorus leucopterus Chev.
56. Euphorticus pubescens ameolus Bates
57. Perigona nigriceps '(De j .)
58. Perigona laevigata (Bates)
59. Perigona picea n. sp.
Slender (for the genus), rather convex ; rufo-testaceous (immature)
to piceous, elytra with faint opalescence in certain lights; head and disk of prothorax darker? mouth parts and appendages testaceous. Head : mandibles rather long, curved, acute; eyes moderately prominent; antennz stout; mentum with a triangular tooth in emargination.
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Prothorax by actual measurement about a fourth wider than long at middle, but appearing almost as long as wide; sides not sinuate, barely convex in profile before the rounded-obtuse basal angles; disk with a fine longitudinal line but no transverse impressions, vaguely impressed each side near base. Elytra each with two inner stria? distinct except at extreme base and apex, irregularly punctulate ; several outer stria? more or less faintly visible ; marginal stria normal for Perigona. Length 3-4 mm. Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19518) and 2 paratypes from Grande Rivi&re, Haiti, W. M. Mann; 1 paratype from Diquini, Haiti, Mann (M. C. Z.) ; I para- type from San Carlos Estate, Guantiinamo? Cuba, Oct. 4-8 (American Museum) ; I paratype from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba? Baker (United States National Museum) ; I paratype from Yateras Dist., Oriente, Cuba, W. M. Mann (U. S. N. M.) ; 2 paratypes from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 645 (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences) ; I paratype from Santo Domingo, A. Busck (U. S. N. M.) ; I specimen? not a type, from Gourbeyre? Guadeloupe (American Museum). For relationships of this species, see key below. Perigona microps n. sp.
(Pl. 5, fig. 8.)
Form average for genus; irregularly eastaneous? elytra with faint opalescent lustre, suture and parts of prothorax more rufescent, mouth and appendages testaceous. Head with mandibles elongate; eyes small? not prominlent, only slightly breaking the outline of sides of head ; antenna? mod- erate, less stout than in picea; mentum with a small tooth in emargination. Prothorax about a fourth wider than long; sides oblique but scarcely or not sinuate before the ob- tuse but not rounded posberior angles; disk about as in picea. Elytra each with two or three inner strite slightly impressed except at base and apex; several outer strite sug- gested by faint irregularities of the surface in proper light; stria? irrlegular but hardly distinctly punctate. Length &3% mm.
Puerto Rico: holotype (United States National Museum) from Bayamon? Jan.; 1 paratype (Museum of Comparative
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Zoology no. 19519) from Fajardo, Feb. Both specimens taken by Aug. Busck.
As cornparled with Perigona picea, this species is broader? less convex, with more slender antenn~, better defined pro- thoracic angles, less distinct dytral stri~? and especially smaller eyes. For other distinguishing characters see the following key to the Whest Indian species of Perigona, of which I have seen a11 except guadeloupensis. I. Color chiefly testaceous, hlead and apices of elytra black- ..........................
ish ; length 3 mm. or less ; cosmopolitan.. nigriceps Dej.
Color piceous to testaceous (immature), apioes of elytra not contrastingly darker; length 3 mm. or more ............ 2 2. Sides of prothorax sinuate before base; 3y2 mm. ; Gua- .............................
deloupe.. .guadeloupensis Fleut. & Sa116 Sides of prothorax not, rarely just barbely, sinuate.. ....... .3 3. Eyes only slightly breaking outline of sides of head (Pl. 5, fig. 8.) ......................................................... microps n. sp. Eyes much more prominent.. ............................................. .4 4. Elytra without distinct strize near sutur~e; body broader, more depressed ; 4-5 mm. ; Cuba, Puerto Rico (and Cen- .............................................. tral America) lmigata Bates.
Elytra each with at lleast two distinct, more or less punc- tate strize near suture; more slender and convex; 3-4 mm.. .............................................................. .picea n. sp. 60. Badister seclusus Blatchley.
61. Chlaenius niger ludoviciana Leng.
niger Gundlach, not Randall.
This is one of the few Carabidze known from Cuba of which I have not seen Cuban specimens,
62. Chlaenius gundlachi Chd,
63. Chlaenius cubanus Chd.
poeyi Gundlach, not Chevrolat.
64. Chlaenius perplexus De j ,
circumcinctus Say.
poegi Chev.
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65. Rembus laticollis Lec.
66. Anatrichis picea (Mots.).
67. Oodes amaroides Dej.
Recorded from Cuba by Gundlach, but I have not yet seen a Cuban specimen.
68. Stenocrepis (Crossocrepis) sulcatus Chev. 69. Stenocrepis (s. s.) insulanus (J.-Duv.) 70. Stenocrepis (s. s.) duodecimstriata (Chev.) lecontei (Chd.) .
71. Stenocrepis (Stenous) tibialis (Chev.) f emoralis (Chd.) .
pallipes Gundlach, not Reiche.
Gundlach's short description evid~ently applies to this species rather than to the true S. pallipes (Reiche) of South America.
72. Stenocrepis (Stenous) metallicus (De j .) Stenocrepis (Stenous) subdepressus n. sp. Of usual form for Stenous, but less convex; black, with greenish or bluish green lustre, head and margins of body scarcely brighter; legs entirely piceous or rufo-piceous, an- tennse pioeous with three basal joints rufescent. Head shin- ing, nearly impunctate, but with exceedingly fine, rather sparse punctuation; menturn tooth long and acute. Pro- thorax moderately narrowed in front, slightly behind ; sides scarcely sinuate before the right or slightly obtuse basal angles; disk rather strongly flattened basally, finely aluta- oeous. Elytra each with seven fine, slightly abbreviated, impunctate strias, seventh finer than others ; scutellar stria distinct ; intervals flat, finely alutaceous but somewhat shin- ing, third impunctate. Front tarsi of male rather widely dilated, about as in S. metaZIicus Dej. Length -+-8% mm. Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19520) and 2 ( $ 9 ) paratypes from Grande Riviere, Haiti, W. M. Mann.
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In Chaudoir's monograph of Stenous (Ann. Soc. Ent. France (6) 2, 1882, pp. 497-) this species runs to metaZZi- cus Dej., which it resembles in most points of structure, but in addition to being a broader and flatter insect, sub- depressus is differlently colored and has the head practically impunctate, the prothorax slightly more narrowed poste- riorly, and the third elytral interval without dorsal punc- tures Thle bluish green, almost uniform coloration and slightly depressed form are strongly suggestive of some Selenophorus.
Stenomorphus manni n. sp.,
Elongate, parallel, moderately convex; shining rufo-tes- taceous to piceous brown, lower surface and appendages slightly more rufescent. Head with two rathler small, abrupt foveae anteriorly; front smooth. Prothorax elon- gate in male (about five-eighths as long as elytra) , less elon- gate in female; widest just behind middle; sides parallel ( 9 ) or very slightly converging ( 8 ) anteriorly, somewhat contracted. and broadly but slightly sinuate before the rounded basal angles ; disk with fine median line and oblique linear basal foveae, also with faint transverse undulate strigae, surface not punctate.
Elytra somewhat emarginate
at base ; striae deep and impunctate ; intervals convex, third with a series of punctures on inner edge, fifth with six or fewer irregular punctures either at middle or near edges. Sexual tarsal characters as usual in genus; male middle femora only minutely denticulate on lower edge near apex; middle tibiae straight in both sexes; hind tarsi slender. Length +12 ( 9 ) -15 ( s ) mm.
Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19525) and 4 ( 5 Q 9 9 ) paratypes from Manneville, Haiti, W. M. Mann.
This, the first Stenomorphus to be found in the Wlest In- dies, is very close to rufipes Lec. of the United States but is slightly more slender, with the middle femora of the male more minutely denticulate and the male middle tibiae not even slightly arcuate as they are in rufipes. 73. Gynandropus subquadratus Putz.
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The following brief and rather artificial key includes chiefly species which I have seen myself. Three other spe- cies, marked with asterisks, are merely inserted in the proper places from description, without final distinguishing characters being given. Of species recorded from the West Indies I have belen unable to place only Selenophoms lucidzis Dej., described as probably from the Antilles, (near disco- punctatus), and subaenezcs Reiche, not known from north of Guadeloupe (probably also near discopunctatus) . I have been aided in my identifications in this difficult genus by brief notes on some of Putzeys' types from Mr. A. d'Orchy- mont, and by comparison of specimens with the type of S. integer (Fab.) made for me by Dr. Joseph Bequaert. 1. Elytra with series of distinct punctures on second, fifth, and seventh striae .............................................................. .2 Elytra without seriate punctures ........ .nonseriatus n. sp. 2. Surface of elytra entirely pubescent; 7-8 mm. ................. pubif er Putz.
Most of elytral surface glabrous.. ................................... 3 3. Elytra dark, shining, with bluish, greenish, or cupreous . .
iridescence ......................................................................... .4 Elytra without iridescence .............................................. 9 .....
4. Basal foveae of prothorax impunctate or nearly so.. .5
Basal foveae of prothorax rather closely, though not coarsely, punctate ............................................................... 6 5. Seventh elytral interval near apex greatly swollen later- ally, overhanging margin at sinuation ; -+-I0 mm. ..... carniger Putz.
Seventh interval not swollen ; 7-8 mm.. ............................. flavilabris Dej .
6. Length over 7 mm. ............................................................. 7 Length under 7 mm.. .......................................................... 8
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7. Sides of prothorax parallel, scarcely arcuate ; elytral ........................................... striae punctulate integer Fab.
Sides of prothorax more arcuate; striae not punctulate. chalybeus Dej.
(and) propinquus Putz.
(and) puertoricensis Mutchler.
8. Elytral striae punctulate .............. ..striatopunctatw Putz. ..................
Elytral striae not punctulate
puncticollis Putz.
9. Surface of elytra not alutaceous. ....... (refer back to) 5
......................................... Surface of elytra alutaceous.. .10
10. Color rufous with elytral intervals no. 2 to 5 or 6 black- ..................................................................................... ish .I1
............................................ Color above nearly uniform. 12
11. Male with basal angles of prothorax slightly prominent ............................................... posteriorly.. .thorackus Putz.
Male with posterior angles of prothorax obtusely .....................................
rounded, like female cinctus Putz.
and (doubtfully Antillean) *dubius Putz. 12. Front shining, not alutaceous ....................................... 13 ........................
Front finely but distinctly alutaceous... 15
13. Basal foveae of prothorax not distinctly punctate ; 4% .................................................................. mm.. .parvus n. sp.
Basal fovese of prothorax extensively punctate. .......... .I4 14. Form relatively broad, less convex; less shining; just ......................................
over 5 mm. ; Cuba
solitarius n. sp.
Narrower and much more convex; head and pronotum highly shining ; just undler 5 mm. ; Haiti.. .......................... haitianus n. sp.
15. Basal angles of prothorax right; seriate punctures of ......................................
elytra much larger than usual 16
Basal angles of prothorax broadly rounded ; seriate punc- ........................................................................ tures small .17 16. Length -+-8-9 mm ......................................... pyritosus Dej. ................................... Length under 8 mm. alternans Dej.
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17. Margins of elytra excised near apex; 495-5s mm ............. sinmtus Gyll. (and) *mundus Putz.
and (doubtfully Antillean) *parumpunctaItm D~ej. Elytra only slightly sinuate near apex; 6 mm. and ................................................................................... over .I8
18. Base of prothorax alutaceous and irregularly punctate ; 6-8 mm.. .............................................. .discopunctatm Dej. Base of prothorax alutaoeous but not punctate ........... 19 ..............
19. Color dull blue ; ~lli/^ mm..
.cyaneopacus n. sp.
Greenish, cupreous, or seneous ; not over 8 mm.. .......... .20 20. Prothorax rather strongly narrowed posteriorly ; 7-8 mm. ............................................................... beauvoisi De j . Prothorax not distinctly narrowed posteriorly ; 26 mm. latior n. sp.
74. Selenophorus pyritosus Dej.
75. Selenophorus alternans De j .
76. Selenophorus cinctus Putz.
Selenophorus thoracicus Putz. ( Q )
excisus Putz. ( 8 )
I have seen twelve males and six females of this Haitian species and am convinced that the differences supposed by Putzeys to separate his two species are merely sexual. 77. Selenophorus flavilabris De j .
78. Selenophorus sinuatus (Gyll.)
parumpunctatus Chev., & Gundlach, not De j. 79. Selenophorus discopunctatus Dej.
cuprinus Dge j .
80. Selenophorus striatopunctatus Putz.
Selenophorus parvus n. sp.
Form average, not especially convex ; blackish, scarcely seneous ; appendages testaceous.
Head with front shining,
not alutaceous ; mandibular scrobes short. Prothorax about a half wider than long (by measurement), rather strongly narrowed posteriorly; basal angles obtuse, rather narrowly
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rounded ; longitudinal impressed line fine but distinct, trans- verse lines obsolsete; disk faintly alutaceous only in region of basal fovese, which are impunctate. Elytra with humeri not strongly angulate ; striae moderate, impunctate except for small aerial punctures on second, fifth, and seventh; scutellar stria practically absent; margin slightly sinuate near apex; intervals alutaceous, glabrous. Apex of pros-
ternum not margined. Hind tarsi slender. Male with front and middle tarsi slightly dilated and biseriately squamulose below. Length 4% mm.
Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19523) .
from Coamo Springs, Puerto Rico, Sept. 28, 1929, S. T. Danforth ; unique.
This species somewhat resembles a small S. sinuatus (Gyll.), but has much less incised elytral apices, better de- fined angles of prothorax, and differs in other ways. 81. Selenophorus solitarius n. sp.
Moderately stout and convex; greenish or aeneous black, nor iridescent; appendages testaceous.
Head with front
impunctate, not distinctly alutaoeous (except faintly pos- teriorly) ; mandibular scrobes short. Prothorax about a half wider than long (by measurement), rather strongly narrowed behind; basal angles broadly rounded ; median longitudinal line distinct, anterior transverse impression faint, posterior absent; disk moderately convex, rather shin- ing; basal foveae alutaceous and rather closely and coarsely punctate. Elytra with humeri angulate; striae moderate, not punctate except for moderate serial punctures on usual striae; scutellar stria present; margin broadly, moderately sinuate near apex ; intervals alutaceous, glabrous. Apex of prosternum not margined. Posterior tarsi rather long. Male with front and middle tarsi slightly dilated and bi- seriately squamulose.
Length + 5% mm.
Holotype 8 (American Museum) from Zaza del Medio, Cuba, Sept. 3, 1913; 1 Q paratype (United States National Museum) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Jan. 14, E. A. Schwarz.
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Superficially this species is rather like a small, stout beau- voki Dej., but is easily separable as shown in the key. Selenophorus hait ianus n. sp.
Not especially broad, but very convex; piceous without distinct metallic or iridescent lustre ; appendages testaceous. Head with front impunctate, very shining; mandibular scrobes short. Prothorax slightly less than a half wider than long (by measurement), rather strongly narrowed posteriorly ; basal angles obtuse, narrowly rounded ; median impressed line fine but distinct, transverse impressions ob- solete; disk convex, very shining; base, especially basal fov- eae, rather finely and closely punctate (punctures fainter at middle of base.) Elytra with humeri angulate; striae mo- derately impressed, impunctate except for usual small serial punctures ; scutellar stria present ; margin mod~erately sin- uate near apex; intervals alutaceous, glabrous. Apex of pronotum not margined. Hind tarsi long. Length 25 mm. Holotype
(Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19524) from Manneville, Haiti, W. M. Mann; 1 9 paratype (Amer- ican Museum) from Pont B'eudet, Haiti, March 3-4, 1922, altitude about 100 ft.
As compared with its closest relatives, which seem to be latior and parvus, this species differs not only as shown in the key, but in its much more convex and more shining (though not metallic) anterior parts.
82. Selenophorus chalybeus De j .
Selenophorus cyaneopacus n. sp.
Subdepressed; bluish or purplish black, dull, not shin- ing; legs piceous; labrum, palpi, and antennae rufo-piceous to rufous. Head : mandibular scroble reaching about to apex of labrum ; labrum very deeply emarginate in front ; bottom of emargination would be acute if angle were not narrowly roundfed ; antennae moderate, not quite reaching base of pro- thorax ; front finely alutaceous. Prothorax large, just un- der a half wider than long, subquadrate, slightly narrowed behind ; basal angles broadly rounded ; margin rather strong at sides, less so basally; disk finely alutaceous, depressed
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near basal angles, base finely and inconspicuously wrinkled, not obviously punctate. Elytra finely striate, striae not dis- tinctly punctate except for minute serial punctures on second, fifth, and seventh; scutellar stria rather long; in- tervals flat, alutaceous, but without evident punctuation; humeri distinct; subapical sinuation of margin slight. Pos- terior tarsi long. Prosternum not margined at apex. Male with front tarsi rather narrow; first joint longer but not wider than second, spinulose but not squamulose beneath; joints two to four distinctly but narrowly squamulose; middle tarsi almost without sexual clothing; hind tibise straight ; middle tibiae nearly straight, only slightly arcuate. Length 11% mm.
Haiti: holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19526) from Cap Haitien, W. M. Mann; 3 paratypes ( 8 s ? ) from Jean Rabel, Feb., E. C. & G. M. Leonard (United States National Museum) ; 1 9 paratype from Port-au-Prince, Aug., G. N. Wolcott (U. S. N. M.). The outstanding structural characters of this Seleno- phorus are the deep emargination of the labrum, deeper than in any othler species I have seen, and the reduced squamulation of the male tarsi. The emargination of the labrum is said by Putzeys (Ent. Zeit. Stettiner 1878, Vol. 39, p. 4) to be variable in this genus and to reach its great- est development in S. batesi Putz., which is otherwise quite different from the present species. Bates, in "Biologia" (p. 274), under S. hepbitrni, comments on the reduction of the squammules of the male tarsi in some Selenophorus. He
found the character usually associated with arcuation of the male middle tibiae, but in thle present species the tibiae are no more arcuate than in S. chalybeus Dej. The new species probably has a superficial resemblence to anceps Putz. and opacus Putz., of the Argentine and Brazil respectively, and to one or two other species, but differs, to judge from des- criptions, not only in minor details but in having the la- brum much more emarginate. It is a rather atypical Selen- ophorus, but cannot be referred to any other genus at pres- ent described.
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Selenophorus latior n. sp.
Rather stout, not especially convex ; brownish black, not iridlescent and without evident metallic lustre ; appendages rufo-testaceous, antennae darker. Head with front impunc- tate but finely alutaceous; madibular scrobes short. Pro- thorax about a half wider than long (by measurement), scarcely narrowed posteriorly, so that it appears unusually wide; basal angles rounded but not especially broadly so; median line distinct, transverse impressions obsolete ; disk alutaceous, more obviously so in basal foveae, in which there are very indistinct traces of punctuation. Elytra with humeri angulate; striae moderate, inpunctate except for rather small serial punctures on usual striee; scutellar stria present ; margin only slightly sinuate before apex ; intervals alutaceous, glabrous. Apex of prosternum not margined. Hind tarsi rather long. Male with front and middle tarsi moderately dilated and biseriately squamulose below. Length -1-6 mm.
Holotype s (American Museum) from Haina, Santo Domingo, G. N. Wolcott; 1 $ paratype (United States Na- tional Museum) from Pt. Congrejos, Puerto Rico, Feb. 8, 1920, G. N. Wolcott.
This species is easily recognized by the unusual width of the prothorax at base, as well as by other characters given in the key.
Selenophorus nonseriatus n. sp.
Convex, glabrous, shining; blackish, with more or less strong fclytral iridescence; appendages, labrum, and tip of last ventral testaceous ; mandibles, elytral suture and lateral margins (very narrowly) somewhat rufescent. Head shin- ing, finely! bi-impressed in front; antennas rather stout; mandibular scrobes moderate. Prothorax subcordate, about a half wider than long; sides rounded anteriorly, broadly but slightly sinuate before the obtuse but distinct basal an- gles ; lateral margin narrow; disk with transverse impres- sions and basal fovese vague, median line distinct, surface impunctate. Elytra with striag entire, moderately deep, faint-
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ly irregular but not distinctly punctate; humeri subangu- late ; margin near apex barely sinuate ; serial punctures of second, fifth, and seventh striaa absent. Prosternum not margined. Male front and middle tarsi slightly dilated, bi- seriately squammulose; first joint of front tarsus not larger than second ; hind tarsi short, joints three and four scarcely or not longer than wide. Last ventral narrowly marginate at apex ( 8 ) or not ( Y ), also sinuately emarginate each side (both sexes) . Length -+-5% mm.
Holotype 3 (United States National Museum) and 2 ( Q 9 ) paratypes (I in Museum of Comparative Zoology, no. 19528) from San Francisco Mts., Santo Domingo, Sept. 14 and "Sept.", A. Busck; 1 8 paratype from Claremont, Jam- aica, March 14 (American Museum).
The genus to which this species should be referred is doubtful. However, it is a nearly typical Selenophorus ex- cept for the absence of the usual series of elytral punctures, and it seems better to place it in this genus temporarily rather than to describe a new genus in this difficult tribe without a complete generic revision. Supeficially, except for its completely striate elytra, the new species rather re- sembles BradyceUus obsolete Say of Mexico, but it differs greatly in microscopic structure.
Elongate, not very convex (about as in Stenocellvs ru-pe8- tris Say) ; irregular rufoua to rufescent piceous, suture and outer margins of elytra paler ; legs and mouth parts testace- ous; antennae brown with two basal joints paler. Head
rather short and broad, eyes rather prominent; front nor- mal for rupe~t~s group, indistinctly bifoveate between an- tenor edges of eyes, with a short, oblique impressed line from inner edge of eye to, fovea; front alao with median puncture; mentum toothed. Prothorax about three tenths wider than long, narrowed behind, with basal angles very obtuse and not even minutely prominent, but not rounded; disk with strong median longitudinal and subobsolete trans- verse impressions; basal fovese broad and shallow, finely
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alutaceous and with numerous rather coarse punctures. Ely- tra subparallel, evenly conjointly rounded at apex ; striae entire, moderately impressed, impunctate ; no scutellar stria ; intervals slightly convex, very shining, without trace of al- utaceous microsculpture; one dorsal puncture on each third interval about a third from apex. Male tarsi slightly dilated, sparingly biseriately squamulose below. Length 31/^1/? mm.
Holotype $ (United States National Museum) from Cay- arnas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Dec. 26, E. A. Schwarz; 1 $ para- type (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19529) from the same locality, Baker; 1 $ paratype from Cumanayagua, Cuba, June 13, F. de Zayas (collection Estacih E. Agron- omica, Cuba) ;
1 specimen in poor condition from Cuba,
Poey Collection no. 569 (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences). This speciles belongs to the difficult rupestris group of Stenocellus. It differs from west& and the latter's closest relatives in having the basal angles of the prothorax not minutely prominent ; from congener Lee., nubif er Lec., ven- tralis Lee. (types of all three seen), and flohri Bates (series seen) in lacking the fine, transverse, alutaceous microsculp- ture of the elytra; and from festinans Csy. in being broader, Less convex, with shallower elytral striae and less rounded prothoracic angles.
Thle presence or absence of microsculpture on the elytra is apparently a constant specific character in this genus. For instance, it is uniformly present in a series of 26 specimens of congener Lee. from Brownsville, Tex., is uniformly pres- ent also in the 9 specimens of the following new species, and is uniformly undetectable in a series of 8 specimens of the Mexican nigrellm Bafes which I have seen. I do not know of any species in which the sculpture varies in specimens from a single locality.
85. Bradycellus (Stenocellus) velat us n. sp. Piceous, more rufescent below; suture and mouth always and base of elytra and humeri and (vaguely) prothorax sometimes rufescent; apex and side margins of elytra pos- teriorly and epipleurie and side margins of prothorax below
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more or less testaceous; appendages pale testaceous. Head with a deep, oblique impressed line running forward from the inner margin of leach eye; eyes rather prominent; front faintly alutaceous, with faint puncture at middle ; mentum toothed. Prothorax rather subcordate, about a quarter wider than long; basal angles obtuse but distinct, preceded by a slight sinuation of the sides; basal fovese broad and vague, distinctly but variably punctate ; disk with median line distinct, transverse impressions sub-obsolete, surface with faint silky alutaceous lustre. Elytra parallel, evenly conjointly rounded at apex ; scutellar stria absent, striation otherwise complete, regular, impunctate ; intervals slightly convex, faintly alutaceous, third with a puncture near . second stria behind middle. Male tarsi scarcely dilated, with scanty biseriate squamulation. Length +3 mm. Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19530) and 8 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, Oct. 25-Nov. 23, some taken in flood debris; 1 speci- men in poor condition from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 597 (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences) ; 2 paratypes from Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Sept. 8 and July, coll. by Alsina (1 re- turned to S. T. Danforth) .
This species is very similar to Bradycellus tantillus (Dej.) of the United States, but differs (as shown by comparison with specimens of tantillus in the Leconte Collection and with a series from Florida in my own collection) in being slightly broader, less shining, and with better defined pos- terior thoracic angles.
It is even closer to B. nigrellus
Bates of Mexico and Guatemala, of which there is a series of eotypes in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, but dif- fers in its uniformly duller lustre.
86. Acupalpus (Stenolophus) ochropezus (Say). 87. Acupalpus (Stenolophus) convexulus n. sp. Convex, moderately shining ; nearly uniform piceous black; mouth parts, two basal joints of antennae, and legs testaceous; outer joints of antennae (last four missing) brown. Head short, broad, with moderately prominent eyes,
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frontal sulci subobsolete; front with distinct median punc- ture; mentum without tooth. Prothorax very convex, not depressed at sides, just over a third wider than long (by measurement) ; lateral margins narrow; basal angles strongly but somewhat obtusely rounded; disk with im- pressed lines faint ; basal foveae vague and shallow, impunc- tate. Elytra convex, rather short, subparallel, evenly con- jointly rounded apically; striae rather fine, impunctate; scutellar stria moderately long, slightly impressed ; intervals faintly convex; one discal puncture nearly on second stria about a fourth from apex. Length 31/) mm. Holotype 9 (United States National Museum) from Bar- aguii, Camaguey, Cuba, June 5, 1932, at light, L. D. Chris- tenson ; unique.
Without the male it is impossible to be absolutely sure of the genus in which this species should be placed, bui all non- sexual characters as well as the general appearance of the insect are as in Stenolophus. Among the North American species of the latter, the Cuban one is most like conjunctus (Say) but is much more convex, with a more transverse, differently shaped prothorax.
88. Agonoderus infuscatus Dej.
89. Masoreus (Macracanthus) brevicillus Chev. brevicollis Leng & Mutchler (err.)
90. Masoreus (Aephnidius) ciliatus Mutchler (PI. 5, fig. 9) This species is described in a supplement (p. 130) follow- ing the present paper.
91. Lebia bitaeniata Chev.
92. Lebia cyanea Dej.
pleurodera Chd.
93. Lebia viridis Say
cyanea Chd., not Dej.
94. Lebia collaris Dej.
95. Lebia (Dianchomena) abdominalis Chd. 96. Lebia (Dianchomena) solea Hentz
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97. Gallerucidia dimidiata Chd.
This species, which was described from Cuba, is unknown to me.
98. Phloeoxena plagiata n. sp.
Form nearly as in following species (see fig.), very broad, depressed ; head and thorax piceous black, moderately shining, but with surface finely reticulate; elytra very dull opaque blackish with narrow lateral margin and large, reg- ular, transversely oval spot extending from near middle to near apex, and laterally to the sixth striae, rufo-testaceous; lower surface piceous except metasterna and abdomen rufo- testaceous, latter with narrow black margin ; appendages rufo-testaceous. Head bi-impressed anteriorly, front with a median longitudinal puncture. Prothorax between three and four tenths wider than long; side margins rather nar- row anteriorly, slightly broader posteriorly ; basal angles would be right except are narrowly rounded; fovese in an- gles very broad and indistinct, more alutaceous than prono- tal disk. Elytra with curiously broad, shallow striae, much 'as in P. signata (Dej.) but (even less distinct ; intervals slightly convex, united and slightly more prominent at apex as usual in genus; sinuation of apex less pronounced than in signatq each lelytron with an ocellate puncture at ex- treme base of second stria, also with three dorsal setigerous punctures, the first on the third stria about a sixth from base, second and third on second stria before apical third and near apex. Length just under 5 mm.
Holotype 8 (American Museum) a unique from Guan- thnamo, Cuba, March 3, 1914, taken in a tree, C. T. Rams- dlen.
The simply plagiate color pattern of this species is unique in the genus, except for the following new species. 99. Phloeoxena imitatrix n. sp. (PI. 5, fig. 10.) Superficially almost exactly similar to plagiata (above), which it resembles in color 'except that the elytral macula is smaller and the ventral surface rufous to rufo-piceous.
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Structurally, imitatrix differs in having the prothorax slightly narrower, about a fourth wider than long (by mea- surement), with sides of base more oblique and posterior angles more obtuse, though preceded by a slight sinuation of the sides; in having the humeri more evenly rounded; in having the elytral striae practically obliterated, faintly indicated only in favorable light; and in lacking the anter- ior dorsal puncture of each elytron. The position of the puncture (about a fifth from base) is usually indicated by a faint, broad, indefinite, unpunctiform impression, without a seta. The extreme basal ocellate puncture and the two posterior pairs of setigerous punctures, about a fourth and a twelfth from apex, are present.
Length *4v9-5 mm.
Holotype 8 (United States National Museum) and 2 ( 9 9 ) paratypes
(1 in Museum of Comparative Zoology,
no. 19531) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, March 3, E. A. Schwarz ; 1 paratype from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 954 (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences).
The color pattern at once distinguishes this species from all previously known ones except the preceding. 100. Phloeoxena schwarzi n. sp.
Broad, but less so than thle two preceding species; de- pressed; piceous black, head and prothorax slightly shin- ing but with reticulate microsculpture; elytra duller, opaque ; below piceous, rufescent medially ; appendages tes- taceous. Head bi-impressed anteriorly, front with median impression or puncture. Prothorax subquadrate, a quarter to a third widfer than long (by measurement), sides slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, which would be right except are narrowly rounded; side margins narrow antler- iorly, broader posteriorly; basal fovese broad but poorly de- fined. Elytra visibly but very shallowly striate; striae formed as usual in genus by slight, broad undulations of the surface; each elytron with three dorsal punctures as in plwta,. Length &4y9-5 mm.
Holotype 8 (United States National Museum) and 3 ( 8 ? Q ) paratypes (pair in Museum of Comparative
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Zoology, no. 19532) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Jan. 17, Mar. 8 & 9., E. A. Schwarz.
The lack of plagiation and the narrower form distinguish this species from the two described above; the striation of the elytra is intermediate; the form of the prothorax and presence of anterior dorsal puncture of elytra are as in plagiata. Of other described speci+es this is apparently close only to unicoZor Chd. of Mexico, which is described as having the antennae brown with pale bases and thee legs brown with reddish articulations. Antennae and legs are clear testaceous in the Cuban species.
101. Coptodera festiva Dej.
102. Coptodera unicolor Chd.
103. Microlestes poeyi (J.-Duv.)
104. Apristus sericeus n. sp.
Piceous, silvery aeneous above, appendages piceous ; up- per surface very heavily alutaceous, lower surface less so. Prothorax about a third wider than long (by measurement), much narrowed behind; sidles sinuate before the almost right but only slightly prominent basal angles. Elytra with striae almost entire but very broad and shallow, faintly ir- regular but not punctate; third stria with two large and conspicuous impressions, just before middle and near apical fourth. Length -+-3v2 mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19533) and 7 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Oct. 19, Dec. 3; all taken running on dry sand in the sun on the banks of the Arimao River.
This species may be distinguished from all other Amer- ican Apristus by its shallow elytral striae combined with very heavily alutaceous surface. The species is apparently unique also in the large size of the dorsal punctures of the elytra. The genus has not been known before from the West Indies.
105. Callida rubricollis De j .
degans Chd.
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106. Callida tinctula n. sp.
Small, elytra unusually broad for genus; head and pro- thorax brownish rufous ; elytra rufescent with dull green lustre, brighter laterally ; appendages testaceous. Head with prominent eyes ; front smooth, except slightly alutace- ous anteriorly, with large median; puncture, and with slight longitudinal strigulation at sides in front of eyes. Prothorax less than a fourth wider than long, subcordate; posterior angles right, very minutjely rounded ; lateral mar- gins moderake; median impressed line strong, anterior transverse impression obsolete, posterior distinct but not strong; disk moderately transversely wrinkled, irregularly and sparsely punctate near base and apex and beside middle line. Elytra rather broad but subparallel ; independently . emarginate-truncatle at apex, with outer angle rounded; striae moderate, punctulate ; intervals barely convex, dull and alutaceous ; third interval tripunctate. Inner wings fully developed. Mesosternum not tuberculate between coxae. Lobes of fourth tarsal joints oval, slightly narrowed at base. Last ventral of female quadripunctate each side, broadly truncate apically, slightly sinuate each sidle. Length 5% mm.
Holotype $ (United States National Museum) from Cay- amas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Feb. 2, E. A. Schwarz; unique. This species is generally similar to Callida decolor Chd., described from Martinique and seen by me from Haiti, and will probably prove to have similar male tarsal squammul- ation, with small squammul~es on the first three joints of the middle tarsi. It differs from decolor in being smaller, with elytra submetallic, and with the prothorax narrow and with relatively narrower margin,^. It is apparently not at all close to anything known from Central America. 107. Plochionus (s. s.) pallens (Fab.)
108. Plochionus (Menidius) bicolor Notman 109. Andrewesella (Euproctus) trivittata (Lee.) 110. Apenes coriacea (Chev.)
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111. Apenes sulcicollis (J.-Duv.)
112. Apenes parallela (De j.) ,
113. Apenes (s. s.) delicata n. sp.
Form as usual in sinuata group ; rather broad, depressed ; seneous black with more or less piceous tinge; elytra each with humeral spot (extending inward to about fifth stria, back about a fifth of elytral length) and together with a rather broad, undulate transverse supapical fascia yellow; appendages brownish yellow. Hlead with front not dis- tinctly alutaceous, very finely and sparsely punctate, not strigulose; antennas short, middle joints scarcely longer than wide. Prothorax about a third wider than long (by measurement) subcordate; sides briefly sinuate before the basal angles, which are minutely almost right; disk alutace- ous and with very fine sparse punctuation and indistinct transverse strigulation. Elytra with striae moderate, not punctate ; scutellar stria long; intervals flat or (externally) slightly convex, heavily alutaceous; third interval with two rather broadly but shallowly impressed setigerous punc- tures about a fourth from base and near middle. Length G-51/^ mm.
Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19534) and 3 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June 27 (G. Salt), Oct. 18-Nov. 7; 3 paratypes (United States National Museum) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Mar. 15, May 20, and Dec. 26, E. A. Schwarz; 1 paratype from Cuba, Poey Collection no. 822 (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences). One of my specimens was taken by sifting in woodland, another in a flooded plowed field. This species is near sinuata Say of the United States, but is smaller, with head much less punctate. It answers rather well to the description of lunulata Chd. of Yucatan, but M. Ren6 Oberthur, who has been kind enough to com- pare a specimen of the Cuban species with Chaudoir's type, writes that the latter is considerably larger, with a broader thorax and more elongate humeral mark.
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114. Apenes lata n. sp.
Also of the sinuuta group, and so similar to the preceding (delicata)
that a brief comparison will be sufficient for dfescription. The form of lata is relatively broader; color, sculpture, and marking similar.
Prothorax much broader,
a half or more wider than long (by measurement). Size larger, -+-7-8 mm.
Holotype 8 (American Museum) and 2 paratypes (1 in Museum of Comparative Zoology, no. 19535) from Man- grove Cay, Andros Island, Bahamas, May-June, 1917, W. M. Mann.
I have also seen a specimen from Solledad (near Cienfuegos)
Cuba, July 1, B. B. Leavitt, but the specimen is not at present available for description. A specimen of this species also has been sent to M. Ober- thiir, who finds it different from anything in his collection. I had thought from Chaudoir's description that it might be fasciata, d~escribed without locality, but M. Oberthiir writes that the type of fasciata has a more cordiform prothorax, and that the West Indian species is perfectly distinct. Apenes laevicincta n. sp.
Form of simwta group; head and prothorax aeneous rufo- piceous, ground color of elytra nearly same; elytra each with humerus, a fragmentary oblique fascia at basal third, narrow lateral margin, and common subapical transverse fascia testaceous, also with a slightly oblique transverse shining black fascia common to both elytra just in front of subapical testaceous mark, also with faint dark spotting around anterior oblique fascia and on the ninth interval; lower surface mostly piceous, appendages and middle of ab- domen rufous or testaceous, base of femora slightly infus- cate. Head alutaceous and finely and sparsely punctate, not strigulose; antennae short, middle joints about as wide as long. Prothorax transverse, nearly a half wider than long (by measurement), subcordate; sides briefly sinuate before basal angles, which are minutely almost right; disk alutace- ous and with fine sparse punctuation and indistinct trans- verse strigulation. Elytra finely striate, striae finely punc-
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tulate, scutellar stria long; intervals nearly flat, alutaceous except in transverse black fascia which is smooth and shin- ing, third interval with two broadly impressed punctures almost on second stria (relation to striae probably variable) about a fourth from base and near middle. Length just over 5 mm.
Holotype 8 (American Museum) unique, from Port-au- Prince, Haiti, about 300 ft. altitude, Apr. 8-11, 1922. This species is at once distinguishable from all others of the sinuata group, including the two described above, and I think from all other Apenes too, by the black, shining fascia just preceding the subapical testaceous one. The alutaceous head and punctulate elytral striae further differ- entiate this species from the two preceding. 115. Eucaerus insularis n. sp.
Stout, convex ; piceous, elytra with iridescent lustre ; an- tennse with first six joints brown, seventh vaguely bicolored, outer joints whitish; palpi and legs irregular brownish yellow, posterior femora darker. Head alutaceous, anten- nae relatively stout, middle joints about three times as long as wide. Prothorax cordate, about four tenths wider than long (by measurement), sides sinuate before the obtuse but distinct posterior angles ; disk alutaceous. Elytra shining, striae rather fine, entire, not punctate ; intervals barely convex; third stria with inconspicuous setigerous puncture about a fourth from base, second stria with similar punc- tures near middle and about a fifth from apex. Inner wings vestigial. Male with one, female with two setae each side last ventral. Length -+-3% mm.
Holotype 9 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19536) from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, probably taken in flood debris; 3 paratypes (United States National Museum) ( 8 ? 9 ) from Cayamas, Sta. Clara, Cuba, Jan. 17 and Mar. 11, E. A. Schwarz.
This species is very close to Euczrus varicornis Lee., of which I have seen nine specimens, including the type, from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana, but differs in having the antennae slightly stouter, the
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posterior angles of the prothorax more distinct, and the color darker.
The genus has not been known before from the West Indies.
116. Pentagonica flavipes (Lee.)
117. Pentagonica nigricornis n. sp.
bicolor (Gundlach) (Rhombodera) , not Lee. Form as usual in Pentagonica ; surface alutaceous, slightly shining; black ; entire prothorax, narrow reflexed margins of elytra, and legs yellow; palpi brown; antennae entirely black. Prothorax slightly wider than in flavipes, eight or nine taenths wider than long. Elytra moderately striate, striae irregularly subpunctate ; intervals slightly convex. Length k4-5 mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19537) and 2 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Nov. 1 & 2; all from flood debris.
This differs from all previously described New World Pentagonica in type of coloration combined with uniformly black antennae. It resembles picticornis Bates of Guatemala except that the antennae (of nigricornis) are not bicolored and there is less yellow on the lateral margins of thle elytra. Gundlach's notes under "Rhombodera bicolor" show that he really had this specijes before him.
Pentagonica divisa n. sp.
atrorufa (Gundlach) (1893, An. Soc. Es-
panola H. N. 22, p. 292; Rhombodera),
not Reiche,
bicolor (Leng & Mutch.) (1917, Bull.
American Mus. N. H. 37, p. 195), not Lee Form as usual in genus; head and prothorax above and below yellow testaceous, prothorax above with sides (but
not margins) anteriorly faintly dusky to more or less strongly infuscate; elytra dull black with narrow pale outer margins ; hind body piceous below ; antennae testaceous with first joint commonly and next three rarely slightly darker; legs testaceous. H~ead and prothorax as usual in genus; alu-
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taceous; prothorax seven or eight tenths wider than long. Elytra unusually deeply striate. Length +4-4% mm. Puerto Rico : holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19538) from Yauco, F. Delgado : paratypes from Maya- guez, S. Vicks ; Jayuya, C. Gonzales; Aguada, G. Lopez ; and Boquerh, F. Mora; all December (collection of S. T. Dan- forth and M. C. Z.) ; Bayamon, May 14, at light (United
States National Museum).
This species resembles atrorufa Reiche (Brazil), bicolor Lee. (United States), and semifulva Bates (Central Amer- ica) in color, but differs from all of them in having testa- ceous, not dusky, antennae, and from the last two at least, in having deeper elytral striae.
118. Colliuris (Odacanthella) picta extrema Liebke picta (Gundlach), not Chd.
118-a. C. (0.) p. suturalis (Chd.)
concluda Liebke.
The American Museum possesses one specimen each of sut- uralis Chd. and concluda Liebke, the latter differing from thle former only in that the subapical red spots of the elytra are connected across the suture. These specimens were 'evidently taken together, "at the foot of a Jatia fence post," between Manati and Los Canos, Guantgnamo, Cuba, July 27, C. T. Ramsden. It does not seem to me worth whik to recognize and name color forms of species of beetles when, as in this case, color has no geographical significance, so I suggest that concluda be reduced to syn- onymy. The 'entirely unspotted form (extrema Liebke) may possibly have geographical standing in Cuba, so it may stand for the present.
11 9. Colliuris (Odacanthella) gundlachi n. sp. Elongate; piceous, elytra translucent apically, each with a conspicuous subapical red spot and rarely a rather small reddish mark about a third from base near outer margin; antennae brownish, joints two and three vaguely more rufescent; middle and hind tibiae more or less spotted or banded with whitish beyond the middle; femora pale bas-
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ally, brown apically. Head: front smooth. Prothorax about two and four tenths as long as greatest width, with usual median line,
with faint traces of transverse rugae
only basally, otherwise smooth; anterior angles not at all produced. Elytra with striae almost obliterated even in basal third, where only indistinct traces of punctathe stri- ation are visible ; outer apical angles approximately right; apex sinuato-truncate. Length 6%-8 mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19539) and 34 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, Oct. 19-Nov. 7; taken in a variety of damp places. In Liebke's recent key of Odacanthella (1930, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 15, pp. 658 -) this species runs to portoricensis Liebke, differing from tetrastigma Chd. and Zioptera Bates in its nearly uniformly colored antennae. From portoricen- sis, which I have seen from Puerto Rice' and Haiti, gund- la,& differs in its maculate tibiae, slightly smaller size, and more nearly complete obliteration of the rug= of the pro- thorax and the striae of the elytra.
120. Colliuris (Pseudocasnonia) noah n. sp. (PI. 5, fig. 11.) Small, slender, convex ; shining piceous, elytra some- times speckled with black in strong light; appendages and narrow elytral margin pale testaceous. Head short; sharply, obliquely constricted behind the eyes;
front smooth and
shining. Prothorax rather short, slightly less than twice as long as wide, truncate anteriorly, anterior angles not at all produced ; disk faintly, transversely rugose, shining and impunctate except in basal and apical transverse impres- sions, with distinct median longitudinal impressed line ; side margins each with a single setigerous puncture just before middle. Elytra narrow, only slightly dilated behind the middle, lateral margins narrow; apices sinuato-truncate, outer apical angles obtuse, narrowly rounded ; elytral sur- face entirely shining, not alutaceous; marginal stria deep, inner imprlessed striae nearly or entirely absent, but several striae indicated by rows of widely spaced punctures in basal third of elytron; third interval with about five, fifth and seventh with fewer, setigerous punctur~es. Length k5 mm.
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Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19540) and 2 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Oct. 21; all taken in floating debris during a very heavy flood.
In Liebke's table of Pseudocasnonia (I. c., 664 -) this species runs to signata Chd. which, however, has the elytra strongly ridged, not smooth as in noah.
So far as I can
find, the latter has no really close relatives. 121. Leptotrachelus dorsalis (Fab.)
I have seen no Cuban specimen of this species, which is recorded by Gundlach, however.
122. Galerita tenebricosa Klug.
vetula Chev.
123. Galerita ruficollis De j .
erythrodera Brulle
insularis Cast.
, thoracica Chev.
Galerita microcostata n. sp.
Moderately stout for genus; black, head with two small red spots between eyes, tibise and tarsi piceous, antennae brownish rufous. Head rather large, with sides angulate, not directly narrowed, behind eyes ; front coarsely punctate. Prothorax subquadrate, very slightly wider than long (by measurement) ; sides broadly sinuate before basal angles, which would be right except are narrowly rounded; disk closely punctate, median line very fine, transverse impres- sions sub-obsolete. Elytra very slightly narrowed basally, humeri rather! distinct; each elytron with nine pairs of fine longitudinal costze, with unpaired intermediate costa? developed externally but obsolete near suture. Inner wings present. Length 15y2 mm.
Holotype 8 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19541) from Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico, May 12, 1932, E. Figarella, received from S. T. Danforth; unique.
This species is a close relative of Galerita americana (L.) of South America and the Lesser Antilles (I have seen
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nine specimens from Guadeloupe) , but has the prothorax and appendages dark and the inner unpaired costae of the elytra obsolete, not conspicuous as in americana. The two species are very similar in form.
KEY TO THE WEST INDIAN SPECIES OF PSEUDAPTINUS Since I am describing several new species of Pseudaptinus and recording others from the West Indies for the first time, it seems best to publish the following key : .......
1. Posterior angles of prothorax basal, not prominent (Pseudaptinus s. s.) 2
Posterior angles of prothorax before base, minutely .......................................
prominent (subgenus Thalpius) .4
2. Body irr,egular testaceous and brown, head black; anten- nse not sharply bicolored; length just under 5 mm ......... apicalis n. sp.
Uniform pieeous or black ; antennae sharply bicolored ; length 5-6 mm.. .................................................................. .3 .. 3. Side margins of prothorax distinct .marginicolZis n. sp. Side margins of prothorax obsolete .......... .thaxteri n. sp. 4. Body bicolored, black or brown with rufous prothorax; punctuation rather fine and close; +5 mm ..................... insularis Mutchler
Not bicolored ; punctuation variable.. ............................. .5 5. Pinkish brown, upper surface opaque, finely and very ......................
closely punctate ; S1/^ mm.. cub= Chd.
Rufous, plain brown, or black; rather closely but more coarsely punctate, surface of head and thorax rather shining between punctures ............................................. .6 6. Antennae slender, middle joints about twice as long as wide; elytra usually with a vague post-median dark area ............................................................. dorsalis Brull6 Antennae stout, middle joints scarcely longer than wide. 7
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7. Elytral striae rather irregularly but seriately punctate except apically, the punctures much coarser than those minutely prominent. .. . .................... .......... .... pygmasus Dej. of the intervals ; prothorax narrower, basal angles more Elytral striae not evidently seriately punctate, not more coarsely punctate than intervals; prothorax broader, basal angles more broadly prominent. .. . . .. .deceptor n. sp. 124. Pseudaptinus (s. s.) apicalis n. sp. Convex, rather elongate, finely pubescent; head piceous black ; prothorax rufo-testaceous ; elytra brown, vaguely paler near suture anteriorly, with about apical fifth testace- ous. Head: antennae stout; eyes rather large and prom- inent ; front finely alutaceous ; moderately punctate. Pro- thorax convex, comparatively little dilated apically ; side margins indistinct ; disk rather shining, rather closely punc- tate, with distinct median line, without transverse rugae. Elytra convex, deeply striate, striae not punctate ; intervals finely alutac'eous ; apices obliquely subtruncate, with outer angles broadly rounded. Length just under 5 mm. Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19542) unique, from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Nov. 13. Among described species this is close apparently only to Pseudaptinus subfasciatus Chd. of Brazil, which, however, has the elytra much more extensively pale. M. Oberthur has compared the Cuban specimen with Chaudoir's type and states that they are different species. From S. leprieuri (Buquet) of Cayenne, which must be superficially similar, apicalis differs in its non-rugose prothorax and in other ways.
125. Pseudaptinus (s. s.) marginicollis n. sp. Elongate, rather convex, finely pubescent; dull piceous black, rufescent below; antennae with three basal joints mostly black, fourth and fifth bicolored, outer joints whit- ish; palpi dark, tipped with whitish; legs testaceous. Head with eyes rather large and prominent; antennae rather slen- .
der; front alutaceous, moderately punctate. Prothorax narrow, about a fifth longer than wide (by measurement),
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but appearing longer, widest near the front; posterior an- gles not prominent; lateral margins distinct, narrowly raised; disk alutaceous, punctate like head, with distinct median imprlessed line abbreviated at base and apex. Elytra deeply, nearly evenly striate ; strise impunctate ; intervals convex, alutaceous. Length 5-6 mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19543) and 9 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Sept. 2 (B. B. Leavitt), June, Oct. 21, Nov. 7 & 9, most of the specimens from flood debris ; 1 paratype from Baraguh, Cuba, Oct. 28, at light, L. C. Scaramuzza (United States National Museum).
This and the following species must be near Pseudaptims elegans (Chd.) of Brazil, but are said by M. Oberthur, to whom I am indebted for comparisons of West Indian speci- mens with Chaudoir's type, to be distinct. I hope in my
next paper to be able to publish the distinguishing charac- ters. Both West Indian species, especially the one from Grenada (below) are near Ps. lecontei Dej. of the United States, too, but lecontei, of which I have seen several speci- mens, has the prothorax more dilated anteriorly and is more shining.
Pseudaptinus (s. s.) thaxteri n. sp,
Exceedingly similar to marginicollis. The preceding de- scription may stand for the present species except that the side margins of the prothorax are obsolete and the color less contrasting. Length about 5 mm.
Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19544) and 1 paratype from Grand Etang, Grenada, R. Thaxter. This species is, of course, named in honor of the collector, the late Professor Roland Thaxter.
126. Pseudaptinus (Thalpius) cubanus (Chd.) 127. Pseudaptinus (Thalpius) insularis Mutchler. This species is described in the ~merican Museum (New York) Novitates no. 686, 1934, p. 4.
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128. Pseudaptinus (Thalpius ) pygmaeus (De j .) 129. Pseudaptinus (Thalpius) dorsalis Brullk. 130. Pse,udaptinus (Thalpius) deceptor n. sp. (PI. 5, fig. 12.) Of average form for group; rufescent to piceous brown, appendages testaceous; entire dorsal surface finely pubes- cent, moderately punctate with punctures of average size ; surface between punctures rather shining. Head with eyes large ; antennae short, middle joints scarcely longer than wide. Prothorax almost exactly as long as wide (by meas- urlement) , subcordate but .broader at base than usual ; sub- basal denticles (basal angles) rather broad and conspicu- ous, but acute; lateral margins rather broad ; disk not very convex, middle line distinct except near base and apex. Elytra rather shallowly striate, striae not regularly punc- tate but with irregular punctuation like that of intervals; latter slightly convex, not rugulose. Length -+-5-6 mm. Holotype (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19545) and 55 paratypes from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, June, Oct. 21-Nov. 7, mostly taken in flood debris. The largest specimens of the series have the punctuation of the prothoracic episterna less developed than in smaller ones, but the variation is probably only individual. The distinguishing characters of the species are sufficiently given in the key.
131. Zuphium cubanum Liebke.
Described in RevistaEnt., 1933, Vol. 3, p. 470. 132. Zuphium bierigi Liebke,
Described in the same paper as thle preceding, p. 467. I
have not seen this species; all my Cuban Zuphium are cer- tainly cubanurn.
133. Brachynus lateralis Dej.
134. Brachynus brunneus Cast.
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VOL. 41, PLATE 5
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EXPLANATION OF PLATE
Outlines (from camera-lucida drawings) of head, pro- thorax, and elytra of
Fig. 1.-Tachys (s. s.) dominicanus n. sp. Fig. 2.-Limnastis americanus n. sp.
Fig. 3.-Micratopus parviceps n. sp.
Fig. 4.-Perileptus columbus n. sp.
Fig. 5.-Coptia sauricollis n. sp.
Fig. 6.-Coptia effeminata n. sp.
Fig. 7.-Colpodes macer n. sp.
Fig. 8.-Perigona microps n. sp.
Fig. 9.-Masoreus (Aephnidius) ciliatus n. sp. (Mut~hl~er.) Fig. 10.-Phloeoxena imitatrix n. sp.
Fig. 11.-Colliuris (Pseudocasnonia) noah n. sp. Fig. 12.-Pseudaptinus (Thalpius) deceptor n. sp. SUPPLEMENT :
Masoreus (Aephnidius) ciliatus new species (Mutchler) (PI. 5, fig. 9)
Oblong oval, black, legs, antennae and mouth parts testa- ceous.
Head subquadrate, finely closely punctate; mandi- bles without setigerous punctures in the scrobes, sides ele- vated; basal joint of antennae with a long bristle at apex; front of labrum slightly curved inwardly (almost straight) margin with setigerous punctures ; clypeus with a puncture on each side. Pronotum subquadrate, one-third wider than long, wider than the head, widest at about the middle, api- cal angles narrowly rounded and slightly produced, lateral margin with a setigerous puncture on the apical third and another at the basal fifth, basal angles broadly rounded, marginal bead extending from the side of the insertion of the head to the scutellar area, a median longitudinal im- pressed line, somewhat well marked, extending from the apex to near the base, with indistinct oblique lines,extend- ing backwards from this median line. Scutellum triangu- lar, apex narrowly rounded. Elytra with humeral angles rounded margins not interrupted, surface (under high
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